[OZAPRS] WXSVR (Mathew McKernan)

[Tony Hunt]

Matty,

I appear to have about 41Megs worth of shapefiles and info documents for
setup on file here. These are for both xastir and Uiview.
You may have it all sorted by now but if not I can upload these to a website
and let you grab them. I remember we had this all running in VK5 and it was
good to have.
I did a bit of work on it with Geoff from memory but its all pretty vague
now. 

The actual Shapefiles I have are
c_aus20no08.zip
mz_aus28no08.zip
xastir_dbfawk-27no08.zip
z_aus28no08.zip


Looks like I even saved the HTML pages from the VKAPRS website on how to
setup various clients and features. The Filenames are
implementation.html
lga-database.php.html
products.php.html
protocol.html
WXSVR-AU-index.html
zones.php.html

These are webpages complete by the look of it with supporting subfolders so
its likely a copy of the old WXSVR-AU web site in part or complete.
 
Tony Hunt VK5AH

 
 

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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 01:49:07 +0000
From: Mathew McKernan <mathew at mmckernan.id.au>
To: Australian APRS Users <ozaprs at aprs.net.au>
Subject: [OZAPRS] WXSVR
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Hi all,


I reached out to Geoff Gatward who was the creator/original maintainer (to
my knowledge) of the old WXSVR-AU service.


I've been doing some work on this over the past few days and seem to have it
operating again.


Is this a service everyone would be interested in returning to service?


In terms of functionality for those who can't remember:

  *   Weather warnings from the BOM for
     *   Severe Thunderstorm Warning
     *
Road Weather Alert
     *
Flood Watch or Warning
     *
Severe Weather Warning
     *
Fire Weather Warning
     *
Sheep Weather Alert
     *
Bushwalker Weather Alert
     *
Frost Warning
     *
Cyclone Watch or Warning
     *
Fire Ban Advice
     *
Marine Wind Warning
     *
Brown Rot Advice
     *
Downy Mildew Advice
     *
Tsunami Threat Watch or Warnin
     *
Aviation Lightning Warning
  *   Fire Incidents for VIC and NSW
  *   Fire Danger Ratings for VIC
  *   Fire Alerts & Community Warnings for NSW (VIC to come)
  *   Marine warnings above only work for NSW, VIC, TAS and WA. Nothing for
QLD or NT as yet


In terms of enhancements, I think we can improve with:

  *   Marine warnings for all states/territories
  *   Fire incidents for all states/territories (where we can, agencies seem
to have a mixture of quality data...)
  *   Fire Alerts & Community Warnings for all states/territories (where we
can, agencies seem to have a mixture of quality data...)
  *   Fire Danger Ratings for all states/territories (as above with fire
alerts etc)
  *   Ability to have WXBOT style functionality for Australia (this would be
cool for those on the road, especially on HF APRS to get their local weather
observations & forecasts)
  *   Once we have a working platform again, work with our iGate operators
to gate bulletins & alerts onto the network where appropriate. This would
involve configuring appropriate filters to pass through (is this permitted
however?)


There are some challenges at the moment, the website for WXSVR-AU is gone
and Geoff is tracking down what he can. One limit we have at the moment is a
copy of the shapefiles. If anyone has these on record somewhere, please let
me know. I'd very much appreciate a starting point to work with.


Cheers & 73s,


Matty

VK3MJM