Buoys now excluded on full import with version "c"
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 12:02 pm
Tim,
Problem: Buoys/ships won't import in with a full ingest which includes surface metars and buoys. It will import buoys only if ingested separately (land metars always plot).
Check the following files. The first one is total surface metars with buoys that was "put together" with this command (after d'loading land metars and buoys):
ingest,f:\digatm\data\surf*.dat
http://www.weatherroanoke.com/fullmetars.txt
Somewhere between version 1.0q and 1.1c buoys stopped plotting with such a file. Strangely, if I strip out the non-buoys from that same file (so there are only buoys) the buoys WILL plot. This is that file:
http://www.weatherroanoke.com/buoys.txt
Similarly, if one just downloads a buoy file (i.e, from Albany) the buoys will plot. Something in the PROCESSING of the land metars "blocks" buoy plotting. Well, if done totally separately, I can do land metars, THEN buoys, and they will plot.
It is somehow the juxtaposition of both in the same processing, into one file, that "gums" it up.
(Of course, the reason to do both in same file is to make a plot that can be ANALYZED with ALL data).
Update: If I choose ALL in TIME SELECTION they will plot together, but ... you will notice ALL land and sea obs are 11Z in this file, so they should plot with the 1 hour selection .... they used to.
Problem: Buoys/ships won't import in with a full ingest which includes surface metars and buoys. It will import buoys only if ingested separately (land metars always plot).
Check the following files. The first one is total surface metars with buoys that was "put together" with this command (after d'loading land metars and buoys):
ingest,f:\digatm\data\surf*.dat
http://www.weatherroanoke.com/fullmetars.txt
Somewhere between version 1.0q and 1.1c buoys stopped plotting with such a file. Strangely, if I strip out the non-buoys from that same file (so there are only buoys) the buoys WILL plot. This is that file:
http://www.weatherroanoke.com/buoys.txt
Similarly, if one just downloads a buoy file (i.e, from Albany) the buoys will plot. Something in the PROCESSING of the land metars "blocks" buoy plotting. Well, if done totally separately, I can do land metars, THEN buoys, and they will plot.
It is somehow the juxtaposition of both in the same processing, into one file, that "gums" it up.
(Of course, the reason to do both in same file is to make a plot that can be ANALYZED with ALL data).
Update: If I choose ALL in TIME SELECTION they will plot together, but ... you will notice ALL land and sea obs are 11Z in this file, so they should plot with the 1 hour selection .... they used to.