Re: Looking for Forecast Zone boundaries

Don,

On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Don Morton wrote:

> Hi, I think this is a long shot, but I'm wondering if there is the
> capability to plot "Forecast Zone" (NWS) boundaries in an NCL plot.
> I've tried setting the mpOutlineBoundarySets resource to
> "AllBoundaries" and, in Alaska, all it produces is the border with
> Canada.

I don't recall NCL having this dataset as a map source.

> Under the assumption that the answer to my question is, "you gotta be
> kidding," my next move "might" be to find someone here who happens to
> have the lat/lon for the line segments that constitute the boundaries of
> the forecast zones. I could then insert them via polyline functions.
> The question is, if I were to do this, would the data be of interest to
> anybody? Is there a way that I would be able to get this incorporated
> into a database for the next NCL?

Maybe you could try out the new shapefile support in 5.1.1 and use the
shapefile found here:

http://www.weather.gov/geodata/catalog/wsom/html/pubzone.htm

daryl
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Received on Fri Jul 03 2009 - 06:07:36 MDT