New map shapefiles and more

[Randy Jennings]

The Skywarn radio team at FWD has posted shapefiles for roads in FWD, AMA , OUN, and TUL CWAs that are based on 2019 Tiger files (much newer than the other sources I have seen). They also have Skywarn Repeater GR placefiles for FWD, North TX connection, and OK.

Placefiles and Shapefiles for GRLevel3 | WX5FWD SKYWARN® Team

wx5fwd.org

@Mike Heskett - hats off to who ever on your team did this.

 

[Bob Schafer]

I have always obtained my road shapefiles from the census website. Is there something different/undesirable about the files from here? They also have the 2019 files, and for every location in the country:

TIGER/Line® Shapefiles

www.census.gov

 

[Randy Jennings]

I have always obtained my road shapefiles from the census website.

Thanks for the link - I had seen the TIGER files on the census website before, but never seen shapefiles. I know in the old days people took the TIGER files and made their own shapefiles.

 

[Mark Drees]

Nice job y’all! On a side note, I thought the 145.310 repeater in Eddy, Texas was down indefinitely since it was removed from the KCEN-TV transmitter. Has this changed?