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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] radar
Date: Wed,  5 Oct 2011 01:43:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <911644f6ac123bb16f56a392ac4950a9@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87faa835fe15098496c3d0219ba2c8bc@9p.sdf.org>

On Wed Oct  5 01:13:08 EDT 2011, smj@9p.sdf.org wrote:
> > i got motivated and fixed radar so that,
> > - /lib/sky here is used to find the "nearest" radar station, and
> > - if you enter an arbitrary (us, sorry) location like "eden prarie mn", radar
> > will find the "nearest" radar station and display that.
>
> Very cool, it seems to be working quite well except for Seattle which
> is cloudless.  But thats due to the ATX Whidbey Island station being
> down for maintenance.  However, we do have a brand new coastal radar
> array which has just recently been brought online.
>
> I added: LGX Langley Hill WA to lib/stations and LGX 47.109 -124.100
> (approx) to lib/stationlat
>
> There is an interesting read about getting the array going and what it
> will do for Western Washington here:  http://tx0.org/2uy

i think it's already there.  what you saw was probablly a bug in
finding the station code.  i had "..." instead of "???".  what was
that dek quote, "i define unix as 30 definitions of regular expressions
living under one roof."

(pull radar again.  sorry.)

; grep ATX /lib/radar/*
/lib/radar/stationlat:ATX	48.18960544933 -122.4886090504
/lib/radar/stations:ATX	Everett/Seattle-Tacoma	WA

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-05  5:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-05  3:06 erik quanstrom
2011-10-05  9:09 ` smj
2011-10-05  5:43   ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-10-05  6:31     ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-05 11:55       ` smj
2011-10-05  8:44         ` Andy Spencer
2011-10-05 13:56           ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-06 16:11         ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-07 10:35           ` Gorka Guardiola
2011-10-05 10:47 ` Steve Simon
2011-10-05 11:01   ` dexen deVries
2011-10-05 11:20     ` Steve Simon
2011-10-05 11:43       ` dexen deVries
2011-10-05 13:37         ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-05 13:45       ` erik quanstrom
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-03  4:18 erik quanstrom

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