Questions about Pro Version

weatherguy08 · Post by **weatherguy08** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:14 am

When the ad says "topographic maps" does this mean it will become your regular background map once you zoom in to a certain point? How detailed are the maps and what is on them (streets, water bodies, airports, ect). I have this on my Christmas List and I just want to verify some of the facts with it.

weatherguy08

http://www.freewebs.com/jays_weather_center

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Sat Dec 17, 2005 9:33 pm

The trial version lets you check this out over the New York city area. So to check them out click map, generate basemap, chose one of the raster projections from the drop down (at the top of the pop-up screen), enter 40.8 for latitude and -74 for longitude, click ok. The raster maps will show more and more detail/higher zoom as the map scale is reduced (the number in parenthesis on the far right). That is to say, to change the zoom level you must "regenerate" the map, as explained above using the different raster map versions - the speed button won't do anything.

Pat

weatherguy08 · Post by **weatherguy08** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 12:45 am

I have the regular DAWS and I went to NYC to view them. Is what is available on here as far as you can zoom in on professional? Can you get down to street-level say for a small town (>100,000 people)?

weatherguy08

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 12:58 am

The highest zoom you can get is with the joint operations graphic raster map, which is very detailed. You could choose to import a Tiger shapefile from ESRI as well. I haven't tried this in DA WS, but it is street level data.

http://www.esri.com/data/download/census2000_tigerline/

Pat

weatherguy08 · Post by **weatherguy08** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 1:35 am

About how detailed do these maps get? Will I be able to see specific streets? What exactly is on them?

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 1:41 am

This is an example using a DA WS shapefile import of the ESRI data mentioned earlier, with radar data overlaid. You can label the streets using the FENAME field as the file is imported, however this will look very cluttered with overlapping labels. Did you have one place in particular you needed street level maps for? If so, I'll try to make a map for you were the labels look a bit better:)

http://www.wistorms.net/misc/jacksonville.jpg

The image is for a section of Duval county Florida.

Pat

weatherguy08 · Post by **weatherguy08** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 1:51 am

Do you have a sample of the joint operations graphic raster map?

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