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Nicole Ferrin, modified 1 Year ago.

City changes and population data

Youngling Posts: 1 Join Date: 1/3/14 Recent Posts

It was discovered that two of our CWA main cities were no longer in the list of cities in IRIS. No one from our office would have removed these. Additionally I found several remote locations that shouldn't have been mapped AND had population data associated with them. 

I've gone through and made the changes fairly easily, but how would this have happened? 

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Mike Sutton, modified 1 Year ago.

RE: City changes and population data

Youngling Posts: 58 Join Date: 6/21/13 Recent Posts
Nicole.

It appears that this occurred because of a shapefile update.  Let us know if you see it change again.

Thanks,
Mike Sutton
IRIS Support/ITO GRR

On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 3:27 PM Nicole Ferrin <VLab.Notifications@noaa.gov> wrote:

It was discovered that two of our CWA main cities were no longer in the list of cities in IRIS. No one from our office would have removed these. Additionally I found several remote locations that shouldn't have been mapped AND had population data associated with them. 

I've gone through and made the changes fairly easily, but how would this have happened? 


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Phil Kurimski, modified 1 Year ago.

RE: City changes and population data

Youngling Posts: 10 Join Date: 12/29/13 Recent Posts
I saw something weird as well where some city centers were in the middle of lakes or miles away from the cities themselves.  I also found some that were missing.  I corrected the ones that were egregious and thought I was the only one who experienced this.

Phil
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Phil Kurimski, CAPM
Senior Meteorologist
National Weather Service
WFO Green Bay, WI



On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 7:15 AM Mike Sutton <VLab.Notifications@noaa.gov> wrote:
Nicole.

It appears that this occurred because of a shapefile update.  Let us know if you see it change again.

Thanks,
Mike Sutton
IRIS Support/ITO GRR

On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 3:27 PM Nicole Ferrin <VLab.Notifications@noaa.gov> wrote:

It was discovered that two of our CWA main cities were no longer in the list of cities in IRIS. No one from our office would have removed these. Additionally I found several remote locations that shouldn't have been mapped AND had population data associated with them. 

I've gone through and made the changes fairly easily, but how would this have happened? 


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Nicole Ferrin IRIS Virtual Lab Forum https://vlab.noaa.gov/web/iris/iris-forum/-/message_boards/view_message/32720067VLab.Notifications@noaa.gov


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Mike Sutton - KB5ZRC
Information Technology Officer
Weather Forecast Office
4899 Tim Dougherty Drive SE
Grand Rapids, MI  49512-4034
Google Voice:  (616) 379-9216
Office:  (616) 949-0643 x486
AWIPS2 - Build 21.4.1-52

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