[OZAPRS] WXSVR

[Peter Wicklein]

Matty

Great, more particularly the Fire items, years ago i used to add them as objects via ui view, bit hard to keep updated if you go on holidays..

Regards
Pete

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From: OZAPRS <ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au> on behalf of Mathew McKernan <mathew at mmckernan.id.au>
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2017 12:49:07 PM
To: Australian APRS Users
Subject: [OZAPRS] WXSVR


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





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