[OZAPRS] NWS Service Source Data

[Ray Wells]

Good, Richard.

Sometimes it's easy to overlook the obvious.

Ray vk2tv

>
> 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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