G’day. I’ve recently received email from the Bureau of Meteorology to say that the data feed they’ve historically provided to make http://slash.dotat.org/cgi-bin/atmos work will, in future, cost $1125 per annum.
Or, more to the point: The data itself will continue to be free, but there’s a $1125 per annum fee to be a registered user of it. I can get similar data at no cost from University of Wyoming’s Upper Air Project. In my experience, the sounding data from there is delayed by an hour or so, because they get it from the BoM too, then process it before they make it available. I see a non-trivial number of HTTP server hits on my website, so I know people are still using the facility. But server hits don’t tell me if they’re getting value out of it. So: Is it still useful? My options, as I see them, are: 1. Pay BoM, 2. Refactor the code to fetch from UoW, and accept that it’ll run a little bit late; or 3. Shut down the site. Currently leaning towards (2), but nobody is getting value out of it then (3) is clearly my path of least resistance. Thoughts, comments, requests? - mark _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
