• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Non-java metar maps (dense and large size)

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Does anyone know of a web source for a large map of surface (metar) data
that is non-java/flash? I have for years been using a rather mishmashed
'mosaic' I made using the NOAA ADDS maps:

http://stormhighway.com/data/metars.shtml

However, the ADDs site has changed the appearance of the maps (adding
borders) that hoses the mosaic, as you can see there. I could re-do this
with CSS/HTML, but don't want to re-invent the wheel if something else is
already out there.

I like the large map because it makes it easy to get a 'big picture' of
surface data at a single glance on one page. I use it many times daily.

EDIT: Scott Kampas forwarded this URL via WX-CHASE that is exactly what I was looking for:

http://vgensini.myweb.uga.edu/gempak/HIRESsurface.gif
 
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I'm not sure Dan if this one fits your criteria, but from the main SPC webpage you can click on "Mesoanalysis". This will take you to a new page where you can select different sectors of the CONUS or the whole CONUS if you so choose. I'm sure you know all of this already, if so just disregard, but I guess I'm trying to help.

I clicked on the link for "National" which brings up a nice sized surface obs map of the CONUS. Once there go all the way to the left under "Observations" and click the second option down "Printable Surface Map PDF". I noticed in the print options you can actually select a poster size option, which would yield an 11" by 17" surface map versus the standard option of 8 1/2" by 11". Hopefully one more option to add to your toolbox.
 
I've updated my surface observations mosaic page for anyone interested. This is a large map of the central and eastern US with a dense display of surface obs, made using individual GIFs from NOAA ADDS overlaid on top of one another. I made this because I wanted a large, dense map of obs in one place without having to click back and forth to regional maps (or to have to zoom in and out of a large map in a slow-loading java applet).

http://www.stormhighway.com/data/metars.php
 
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