excellent program, I love it, only problem is that my local NWS office has changed thier radar last week from the normal type (black map with base reflectivity) to the new enhanced type map which is being updated also on several other local office pages. MY local NWS is APX (Gaylord, MI). maybe look into that, because the widget stopped being able to retrieve the data right when this update occured.

Thanks for the response. As for me personally, I am much more interested in the layers and looping capability than the distance/direction stuff... maybe you could save that for v2.0.

FYI, I lost maps for Nashville, TN as well. I suspected that the map pages you draw from have changed and find that confirmed here. In troubleshooting the problem, I tried several different states and cities with no maps found. It may be deeper than just a few maps?

Anyhow, I look forward to the update. This program has become important to me daily. It rocks and I miss it working.-jg

To Sysyphus' Sister and others:

I've gotten some sporatic reports of 404s due to NOAA changing it's site structure. I've checked sites in NY CA, and WA, and they are fine, but I believe you that there are sites that are changed. With your indulgence, what I intend to do is not just fix the widget, but make it better. I intend to refresh the UI to Photo Ace! standards, and add RIDGE radar data from NOAA, with 8 layers of information. My real life workload is a bit heavy right now, so expect a V2 in a couple to several weeks. Thanks for your understanding.

As of 2/22--now receiving error message "unable to fetch map index. Response = 404. Could not load URL". Any ideas?

Upon close and reload, same error message appears. Using vers 1.3 on WIN XP Pro SP2 with all patches.

THANKS!