Re: OMG recon missions to be shut down?
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Chris in Tampa on 5/13/2013, 8:44 pm
Lol. What would be funny is if I finished the system later this year or early next year and then they decided that they would have all new raw data formats. Thankfully they rarely change so I don't have to write new decoders all the time.
The front page will be simple, just the icon of where the plane is now, no track. To much data to load any kind of track as people will be visiting the front page a lot and refreshing. I will also have a version of the front page without a map for that reason. The plane icon when clicked would give a few details about the mission perhaps and links to follow the recon for the flight.
Eventually, when I do live recon in Google Maps, or when I hope to do it, everything will work like Google Earth basically, only in 2D without a plugin. After I finish the storm slice for HDOB messages I am going to work on the mapping for individual messages which will utilize the same technology to display the data that the live system in Google Maps would eventually use. So by message you will be able to use Google Maps for a single message as if it were Google Earth for that particular message and only that particular message. (this would be through the manual decoder or in the archive for one message only, not the entire mission) So it would be the same balloon popup and same colorized wind barbs as Google Earth rotated to represent the wind speed direction. The problem with doing it all live is that there is so much data to load. A .kmz Google Earth file with data is zipped so that the file size is smaller. That then gets downloaded by people. To do live Google Maps you have to serve the same data ultimately, but it will not be compressed, meaning more demand on my server and more time to load. It also means more people would probably use it because all they have to do is navigate to the page rather than open it in Google Earth. If one single media organization posted a link to my page in a major storm, down it goes. That is why other sites will need to have the system too, but I still want it as efficient as possible for my site too. (If I work out how to access the NHC archive every half hour or so, your site could use the new system if you wanted.) I need to come up with ways to reduce the demand of a live in system in Google Maps which is why it would be the last step as that will take a lot of time and thinking.
I do like the charting idea. In fact I guess I should do more of that for the model system. Maybe do that for best track data. Come to think of it, I really like that idea. Added to the list. |
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