[OZAPRS] NWS Service Source Data

[Richard]

Yes I'm following it up with the BOM and have been for some time.
Just though some one may be able to assist and speed it up or help with 
shape files and other stuff that may need to be developed or moded for 
VK. Working as an organised team we could archive more than just one
person.

As Geoff may have suggested, load up the US NWS shape files and the 
likes and use the UIView NWS addon to see how  informative and useful 
the system can be.

See:
http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/get_nws_shapefiles.htm
http://www.billdiaz.dynip.com/NwsRadar.htm

Cheers
Richard
VK3JFK

Ray Wells wrote:
> Geoff,
>
> If it ever stops raining for more than 12 hours I'll get vk2rmc 
> installed!
>
> Have you considered discussing our requirements with the Bureau of 
> Meteorology to see what facilities they might have already that could 
> be adapted to our needs?
>
> Ray vk2tv
>
>
>> That is true, but none of the WX station OBSERVATIONS are useful when
it
>> comes to distributing ADVISORY, WARNING and ALERT messages from the 
>> Bureau.
>>
>> The NWS functionality is much more than simply current observations.  
>> The
>> NWS will issue for example a Flood Warning for a region, and this 
>> warning is
>> transmitted via an NWS format APRS beacon.  The NWS application on 
>> the APRS
>> client then changes sections of the map to a specific colour to 
>> indicate the
>> areas affected by the warning, and a single object defining the 
>> warning is
>> transmitted.
>>
>> The dimensions of each warning region are specified in the shapefiles 
>> issued
>> by the NWS. Each 'zone' has an ID, so for example they say the warning
>> affects  Florida zones 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 and 8.  The NSW APRS beacon 
>> contains
>> the relevant encoding to change the colour of areas FL1>3, FL6>8 as
>> required.
>>
>> There are a few screen captures of this in action here:
>> http://www.w9gwp.com/APRSNWS.html
>>
>> What we want to do is to 'port' this functionality to make it work in
>> Australia.
>>
>> Geoff  VK2XJG
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
>> Behalf Of Matt Howard
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:13 PM
>> To: ozaprs at aprs.net.au
>> Subject: [OZAPRS] NWS Service Source Data
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> there is also the data from CWOP which includes non APRS stations as 
>> well
>>
>> Matt
>> VK3XIL
>>
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