How to add Lat. and Long. to 600 mile Doopler radar map

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Hi the first map.wtp is my Bad, i put the * in the script file. you stated the
Link that i sent you Worked fine for you ,but this will not work for me only blank page with ! error in left hand lower corner…
the WW version is…
Weather Watcher 5.6.24a
Copyright 2007 Mike Singer

"[United States/Northeast] 1800-Mile Doppler Radar","http://image.weather.com/web/radar/us_ne_9regradar_large_usen.jpg" "[Mine] Tri-State Area","http://image.weather.com/web/radar/us_sc_9regradar_large_usen.jpg" "[United States/Northeast] 600-Mile Doppler Radar","http://image.weather.com/web/radar/us_roc_closeradar_plus_usen.jpg" "[United States/Northeast] 1800-Mile Doppler Radar","http://image.weather.com/web/radar/us_ne_9regradar_large_usen.jpg" "[Mine] Tri-State Area","http://image.weather.com/web/radar/us_sc_9regradar_large_usen.jpg" "[United States/Northeast] 600-Mile Doppler Radar","http://image.weather.com/web/radar/us_roc_closeradar_plus_usen.jpg"
The Error code for the samr URL i sent you states …
line:1
char:1
error:Object expected
code:0
URL: http://image.weather.com/web/flash/FMMa … 3147&viewP

ortWidth=600&viewPortHeight=405&initialWeatherLayerType=radar&initialZoomLeve

l=6&wxAnimateOnStart=true

thats it… if you C&P this URL and it works for you i will try another Computer or reboot to another OS on this Drive Thanks ART :roll: 8-[

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The raw URL has no HTML code and thus can not give you the error you’re describing. As such I don’t know what to tell you.

Your wmp.html file looks fine excepts it’s not for the .swf URL. Near as I can tell the map.wtp file you posted may be ok also.

I guess we’re at a dead end. Sorry Art.

BTW The URL you posted is missing the “-” sign for the longitude and thus points to a location in KYRGYZSTAN.

http://image.weather.com/web/flash/FMMa … Start=true

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ED :icon_smile: I want to Thank You for all your Help… I did fine out what is wrong,I rebooter to my E:drive whitch also Win XP pro and WW ,I think it is 5.6.16 …I tried the URLs even the 1 with out the “-” working ok downloaded fine.Now that i know what it looks like (thr URLs) i will work on
trying to fined out what is Blocking the page on download…I did shut off Zone Alarm & Processor guard.Then i proceeded to shut down all running processors 1 at a time Still did it…IT is something on my C:drive…Again thanks for your time and help. Will let you IF and When i fix it… :wink: :lol:
The old Needle in the HayStack…
Merry Christmas and Happy New YEAR :iconbiggrin: :thumbright: :lol:

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Interesting. Make sure you have Javascript enabled for IE on your C: drive system. And if you have a firefall that blocks out going connections check it’s error logs.

And Merry Christmas to you also. :icon_smile:

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I thought I just might advise other potential users of this trial and error method, that it is indeed slow and quite tedious, which is why you should use tools. One of my preferred tools for this is Google Maps - you click and zoom the map till you find the place you’d like, at the max zoom, and then use the “Link to this page”-link right above the map, which will give you a link to the location you zoomed to. In this link, the lat and long coords are given in the “ll” variable, with lat first and long second. Ie. for google headquarters, it will be something like this:

URL: [size=3]Google Maps
lat: 37.422989
long: -122.084999

This gives you almost the exact coords, but just almost, since the lat/long is for the corner of the map you view, and the “spn” variable denotes the lat/long span for the map - but it’s way faster to get the coords this way.

Furthermore I don’t really understand what is standard about the hh.mm.ss format, when giving lat/long coords - the closest format I know of, would be the dd? mm′ ss".
The ones used here are clearly the degrees formatted as a decimal fraction [which is the most common format for using lat/long in web-services] and with standard east/west long notation [ie 0 would usually be in Greenwich, UK, everything east of it is noted as positive, and everything to the west is negative]
Further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude :wink:

But apart from all this, ART, did you have multiple browsers and did the link work in any of them? And did you try the same version of ww on both systems, seeing as it’s obviously some difference in the config of your systems. Anyways, it should be very possible to get rid of the problem :wink: