User's Guide
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1.Overview
- 2. Setting Up Your System
- 2.1Setting Up Map Layers
- 2.2Setting Up Display Levels (for clients without .psf mapping data)
- 2.3Adding Water-Fill Points (for clients without .psf mapping data)
- 2.4Fixing Floods with Anti-Fill Points (for clients without .psf mapping data)
- 2.5Editing the Places Database
- 2.6Adjusting the Color Palette
- 2.7Using the Baron Chart
- 2.8Editing Colors for 256-Color Palettes
- 2.9Customizing Font Displays
- 2.10Manipulating the Automatic Legend
- 2.11Using Overlays
- 2.12Setting Up Icons
- 2.13Points to Remember
- 3.Adjusting Views
- 3.1Using the View Main Panel
- 3.2Setting Map Parameters
- 3.3Editing Topographical Data
- 3.4Saving and Organizing Views
- 3.5Using the View Options
- 3.5.1Adding Text to a View
- 3.5.2Zooming In and Out From a View
- 3.5.3Pointing to Features on a View
- 3.5.4Panning on a View
- 3.5.5Labeling Streets with Street Spotter
- 3.5.6Controlling Display of Radar Data
- 3.5.7Utilizing TeleTrac
- 3.5.8Displaying Lightning Strikes on a View
- 3.5.9Displaying Storm Spotter( Van data
- 3.5.10Toggling High-Definition Data Processing
- 3.5.11Displaying NEXRAD forecast data
- 3.5.12Displaying Neighborhood Weather Net( Sensor Data
- 3.5.13Zooming to a Specific City
- 3.5.14Adding Fronts and Pressure Markers
- 3.5.15Creating Temporary Pixel Query Points
- 3.5.16Creating Fixed Pixel Query Points
- 3.5.17Displaying Precipitation Type Maps
- 3.5.18Saving the Current View as a Bitmap
- 3.5.19Printing the Current View
- 3.5.20Highlighting Your Spotter Network On-Air
- 3.5.21Displaying National Weather Service Warnings
- 3.5.22Displaying Wind Speed and Direction
- 3.6Points to Remember
- 4.Managing Storm Tracks
- 5.Using SEQUENCER
- 6.Controlling Your Radar
- Glossary
FasTrac Millennium User’s Guide – May 2003
Adjusting Views
hold down the button on the pen, and drag the cursor to where you want the line to end. To
change line colors quickly, click the right mouse button. The colors appear in the order: red, blue,
green, yellow, white, black, purple, cyan, and
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colors, click on another color.
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Zoom hot button.
3.5.8 Displaying Lightning Strikes on a View
y deselecting the Lightning and Blink options under the Quick
Settings area.
nts into
a Sequence (see Chapter 5, Using SEQUENCER, for more information).
Editing Lightning Displays
In the View Data panel, you can select from several options.
Show turns on the lightning display.
Blink causes lightning strikes to flash.
Bold doubles the thickness of the displayed strikes.
r as a larger icon, which
continually jumps to the newest lightning strike.
Specifying Lightning Colors
ightning Positive
(Hot, Warm and Cold), and Lightning Negative (Hot, Warm, and Cold).
You can change additional settings with the
Telestrator Pen Information menu, w
you can open by right clicking on the
TeleTrac hot button. You can change the
Width of the Telestrator lines to any value
from 0 to 99. If you select the Transparent option, the Telestrator lines you draw will chan
appearance so that you can see the map graphics under the line. The last option in this menu i
select the line color. The currently selected color has a dot in the center of its circle. To chan
To rem
Select the Lightning hot button to display a lapse of the lightning strikes
that have occurred over the past hour. Right-click on the button to
deactivate lightning. You may also turn off lightning through the View
Main panel, b
Both Lightning displays and Lightning time-lapses can be inserted as eve
Cursor causes the latest lightning bolt to appea
There are six colors in the Setup > Colors menu associated with Lightning: L
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