[aprssig] Weather station viewing online

[Michael J. Wolthuis]

Steve, that is great and I realize a lot of ours are being processed into
AWIPS, but we also want to provide the displays for our e-Team dispatch
center, our RACES/ARES program, the local fire stations, etc and they do not
have/use AWIPS.  This is actually more for them than the NWS.  Sorry, I
didn't make that clear.  We have over 25 weather stations in our county, but
the data is spread out over a lot of things (APRS, CWOP, local user
webpages, etc).

I just want to display it to basically the general public or at least the
amateur/RACES/ARES/fire communities on a nice Google map where they can just
click the individual stations and get "neat" graphically presented info.

Thanks, I'll dig some more.  Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: aprssig-bounces at tapr.org [mailto:aprssig-bounces at tapr.org] On Behalf
Of Steve Dimse
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 9:24 AM
To: TAPR APRS Mailing List
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Weather station viewing online

I would not be surprised to find out that the forecasters at your WFO  
are already using that APRS data, even they may not be aware where the  
data comes from. Much of it appears automatically on their AWIPS  
workstations. This would be the interface they would most likely  
prefer, it is optimized for their needs and they are already familiar  
with its operation.

Any station that is signed up for processing through the Citizen  
Weather Observing Program has its data flow through findU into the  
MADIS intake system, where QC is performed and the data made available  
to everyone, including AWIPS, via MADIS. Station are added at the  
request of the owners or the request of forecasters. You can check if  
a station is enrolled by going to findU's weather page for the station:

http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?call=KG4LXH-2

look in the left hand column for "Quality control graphs" under  
Citizen Weather Links" subheading. If the link appears, then the data  
will be on your forecaster's AWIPS. It will not appear under the ham  
callsign, instead an identifier starting with A for ham and C or D for  
CWOP stations will appear. You can see the identifier by clicking on  
the QC link, the ID is in the URL sent to request the QC graphs.

Stations not enrolled will not have the quality control graph link in  
that section, for example

http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?call= KCYM4

Info on getting a station added is at

http://www.wxqa.com/SIGN-UP.html

Glancing through kb8zgl's near.cgi list, most of the stations around  
you are already signed up.

Steve K4HG

On Feb 12, 2009, at 8:37 AM, Michael J. Wolthuis wrote:

> What is the best way to view multiple weather stations online?  Is  
> there any way to plot them all on a Google Map and be able to click  
> for the weather data that currently exists?
>
> I know I can do it with Findu, but I am looking for more graphical  
> weather display and integration with Google Maps if possible.  We  
> want to then give this to the NWS locally.
>
> It would be even better if we could set alarms for certain  
> conditions noted by the weather stations and then turn them colors  
> on Google Maps.
>
> Any ideas to get me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
> Kb8zgl
>
>
>
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