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Location Controls
Overview

McIDAS-V provides a collection of locations. These may be NEXRAD stations, states, counties, geographical features, countries, etc. The Location Controls are used to display these locations. The list of locations is accessed through the Display->Plot Location Labels... menu item in the Main Display window. You can also load in local files that use these location controls. The user interface consists of four tabs: Display, Locations, Data Sets, and Filters.

The Display tab allows the user to control how the display will appear in the Main Display window:

Image 1: Display tab of the Location Controls Dialog
Image 1: Display Tab of the Location Controls Dialog
Properties

The Locations tab shows two sub-tabs, All Locations and Displayed Locations. Shown at the bottom are the details of a location:

Image 2: Locations Tab of  the Location Controls Dialog
Image 2: Locations Tab of the Location Controls Dialog
Properties

The Data Sets tab lists all of the location files that are being displayed. You can remove a data set by clicking on the data set and pressing Delete:

Image 3: Data Sets tab of Location Controls Dialog
Image 3: Data Sets Tab of the Location Controls Dialog

The Filters tab allows you to filter what locations are being shown based on their internal attributes:

Image 4: Filters Tab of the  Location Controls Dialog
Image 4: Filters Tab of the Location Controls Dialog
Properties
Menus

Many of the menu items seen utilizing this display are standard options that can be found in the Menus section of the Layer Controls page. However, there are some options that are unique to this display.

The Edit menu has these unique options:

The View menu has these unique options:


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