Re: so have you been up all night writing code ?
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Chris in Tampa on 8/25/2015, 7:41 am
Yep. I'm trying to get the NOAA radar feature to take a KMZ file from NOAA and then extract the image from it. Read the KML and get the coordinates and other details. Save that in a text file. Create thumbnails of the image. Then put it where it belongs on the server. If something goes wrong, then it still has the KMZ part which is also always store. I am almost done with that. I want to get that working for the mission today, and also have that done for the previous several missions when I test shortly. However, the actual display to view it will take a bit longer. It might be tomorrow before I get to that. We'll see. When things are going on I get to test things in real time. That's the best way to find errors, so it has been an exceptionally busy week.
The upgrade icon in the bottom right corner lets you know if you can handle it. Open it and run the check it does. I have a computer I bought a few years ago with Windows 8 and it worked. (Well, by work I mean I was one of the people who decided to try Windows 10 months before it was released and it went very badly, but it works great now. I'm actually on a later build of Windows already.)
I have a really old computer my dad uses. It could not handle it. The hardware was too old. But it was so old I had to tweak things just to get Windows 7 to run on it.
It seems there a lot of people blogging on Weather Underground now. I'll have to check into that sometime. I have seen blogs from several mets there in the past few days I had not seen previously. TV and blogs, I like the new stuff, or seemingly new, from WU.
Here is something I was going to send to Jim later about the radar data, but I was waiting to get further along on it:
I've got a lot of cool things planned for it. I am going to create a display in Google Maps in the next few days. I worked out how to do it. I am going to download the radar data as normal like now. Then I am going to have something that tries to unzip the Google Earth KMZ file and takes out the image and details about where the image should be placed. Once I have that information the system will store that so I can create an overlay in Google Maps. That will allow me to create a map with a sidebar with a list of imagery. You will click on an image and that radar image will display in Google Maps. There will also be the same thing in Google Earth. As well as having the track where you can click on an icon for data and then click the link in the info window, you will also be able to select the radar image in a list of radar scans and have the overlay appear immediately, without having to open an info window first and then clicking the link. It will allow you to very quickly view all the radar data for the mission. |
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