* Curtis L. Olson -- Thursday 30 December 2004 17:54:
> I believe the weather reports are time stamped so we could ignore
> reports that are older than "x" hours. I don't think we are currently
> doing that.
No, we aren't. I have a patch that does it, currently dismissing reports
older than 300
Hi Everyone!
Regarding real weather processing from live METAR reports, please
consider providing the capability to load the weather conditions from
a file, not only from live stations.
It may be possible for someone to wish to fly FGFS right now but using
the "actual" weather from some day in th
* Pablo J. -- Wednesday 12 January 2005 01:23:
> Regarding real weather processing from live METAR reports, please
> consider providing the capability to load the weather conditions from
> a file, not only from live stations.
>
> It may be possible for someone to wish to fly FGFS right now but usi
* Melchior FRANZ -- Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:18:
> * Pablo J. -- Wednesday 12 January 2005 01:23:
> > Regarding real weather processing from live METAR reports, please
> > consider providing the capability to load the weather conditions from
> > a file, not only from live stations.
> Or, to ma
* David Megginson -- Wednesday 12 January 2005 14:34:
> You can download all the world's METARs as one big file.
Where? noaa.gov?
> or teach FlightGear when to look for the next one).
FlightGear does already know when and where to look for data, and it has
a working interface. It's the respons
* David Megginson -- Wednesday 12 January 2005 15:13:
* > On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:01:28 +0100, Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > * David Megginson -- Wednesday 12 January 2005 14:34:
> > > You can download all the world's METARs as one big file.
> >
> > Where? noaa.gov?
>
> ftp://weat
* Martin Spott -- Wednesday 12 January 2005 16:11:
* > Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> > One has then only to start fgfs with a time for which the cache has METAR
> > data
> > available, and there we go. :-)
>
> Would it make sense to couple this to '--start-date-lat=' ?
That's what I'm currently worki
* David Megginson -- Wednesday 12 January 2005 17:02:
> There's one gotcha -- the file for the current cycle is usually
> incomplete (the file grows as reports are collected), so you always
> want the previous one as a backup.
I noticed already. That's no problem, though. You just dump as much MET
* Pablo J. -- Wednesday 12 January 2005 01:23:
> Regarding real weather processing from live METAR reports, please
> consider providing the capability to load the weather conditions from
> a file, not only from live stations.
>
> It may be possible for someone to wish to fly FGFS right now but usi
Pablo J. wrote:
Hi Everyone!
Regarding real weather processing from live METAR reports, please
consider providing the capability to load the weather conditions from
a file, not only from live stations.
It may be possible for someone to wish to fly FGFS right now but using
the "actual" weather from
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:18:18 +0100, Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For that you would need METAR sets for several stations and for several
> moments in time. It would have to support recorded weather for a flight
> from, let's say, KSFO to KJFK. I don't see a way to integrate somethin
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:01:28 +0100, Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * David Megginson -- Wednesday 12 January 2005 14:34:
> > You can download all the world's METARs as one big file.
>
> Where? noaa.gov?
ftp://weather.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/cycles/
All the best,
David
Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> Thanks! I'll let the metar proxy download the requested files from there
> to $FG_HOME/metar//[0-9][0-9]Z.TXT and serve the most appropriate metar
> data string to fgfs via the normal NOAA lookup mechanism (via HTTP). One has
> then only to start fgfs with a time for which
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:53:31 +0100, Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks! I'll let the metar proxy download the requested files from there
> to $FG_HOME/metar//[0-9][0-9]Z.TXT and serve the most appropriate metar
> data string to fgfs via the normal NOAA lookup mechanism (via HTTP).
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