There is still an SA RASP running on my server: http://users.on.net/~dsg/HG/RASPtable.html
Dave On 8 Sep 2017 11:26 PM, "Mark Newton" <new...@atdot.dotat.org> wrote: > On 7 Sep 2017, at 4:11 PM, Rob Wintulich <r...@signwizard.com.au> wrote: > > Yes, I care and I also love that particular RASP facility. > My understanding is that someone appropriately informed and willing needs > to service an area to keep it up and running. Mark Newton may be someone > who might be able to inform us better!?! > > > Nah, I’m the temp trace guy, not the RASP guy. > > The temp trace site is still ingesting data, and still running. I haven’t > looked at the logs recently to see how often it’s being used, but as long > as data is available it’s still able to work. > > Data is less available than it used to be. In 2004, Peter Temple organized > a free account with the Bureau of Meteorology for the raw data on each of > the temp trace sites. They shut that down a couple of years ago. We got ten > years out of it for free, but they didn’t want to continue it without > billing about $2500 per annum to keep it alive, and the availability of > RASP and Matt Scutter’s experimentation with SkySight suggested to me that > maybe that wasn’t a good investment. > > Consequently, I switched the data ingestion back to University of > Wyoming’s Upper Air Project, which gets the same BoM data I used to get, > but with a delay of about an hour. That’s why the traces aren’t as early > each morning as they used to be. > > My site has stored every single sounding datapoint it has ingested for the > last 14 years. The sounding data table in the database has about 22 million > rows. Nearly a decade and a half of several-times-per-day data for has > proved to be a useful resource to some people: I’ve been asked to make > extracts available to climate science departments at a couple of > universities, and the data has informed some PhD projects. > > I reckon the hang glider folks still use it too. I occasionally get > questions or attaboys from them. > > The best bit is that it’s required almost no maintenance, so I’m happy to > let it sit on my server more or less forever. I wrote the software in the > first half of the last decade, and except for a few small updates to cope > with data provider changes and a couple of week-long outages when I’ve > moved house, it’s run on autopilot ever since. I wish every software > project I did was as reliable as this one :-D > > For the real die-hards (or moneyed,) a lot of folk are migrating to > subscription services like Matthew Scutter’s SkySight which offer even more > than ‘common’ old RASP, but for old hacks like myself who just want to be > able to pick out the regular good days each season, RASP is great. If the > task of maintenance is not too onerous I’d be happy to keep an eye on it, > but I would need guidance and assistance initially to get me ‘installed’ > > > Honestly, I’d recommend SkySight. Not just because it’s empirically > excellent, but also because the gliding community is so small that useful > facilities can only continue to be provided if people who need them support > them. > > Matthew’s trying to make a living out of SkySight.io. He’ll be motivated > to keep it “good” as long as the money tap doesn’t dry up so much that he > has to get a real job instead :-) > > - mark > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > >
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