From the Science and Operations Officer (SOO) in Rapid City:
"Is it possible to overlay county boundaries, highways, and/or cities with SIFT?"
From Dave Hoese: "We use shapefiles from https://www.naturalearthdata.com/ for our
country/state borders (I use the same ones on GeoSphere). They have
shapefiles for counties, highways, and cities, but since we don't
currently bundle those with SIFT they would have to be added. So biggest
worry there is the size it would add to the tarball/zip file for such a
small use case. Adding an option to download them dynamically (menu
option) would be possible in the future.
The counties and highways should both be drawn as lines so it shouldn't
be too hard to add them assumes that no text is needed on top of them.
Cities are a little different as they would probably be drawn as
"markers". This isn't impossible, but it may not fit into the existing
SIFT structure so may require a little extra work. If city names need to
also be included then that's much more difficult."
From the Science and Operations Officer (SOO) in Rapid City:
"Is it possible to overlay county boundaries, highways, and/or cities with SIFT?"
From Dave Hoese: "We use shapefiles from https://www.naturalearthdata.com/ for our country/state borders (I use the same ones on GeoSphere). They have shapefiles for counties, highways, and cities, but since we don't currently bundle those with SIFT they would have to be added. So biggest worry there is the size it would add to the tarball/zip file for such a small use case. Adding an option to download them dynamically (menu option) would be possible in the future.
The counties and highways should both be drawn as lines so it shouldn't be too hard to add them assumes that no text is needed on top of them. Cities are a little different as they would probably be drawn as "markers". This isn't impossible, but it may not fit into the existing SIFT structure so may require a little extra work. If city names need to also be included then that's much more difficult."