• 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.

Possible Andriod Radar Application

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Nathan Schnur

Hi,

I am strongly considering making an attempt at writing a radar app for Android since I dislike most of the ones currently available. Now I'd have no problem going out and grabbing images and using them for the radar image but I'd like to try and convert the raw NWS data into an image (Similar to GRLevel3 and StormLab). I am assuming this is no easy task. Is there documentation anywhere that even begins to describe how to do this or where you can even gather the raw data from?

I'd consider myself a decent developer but this brand new territory so any help in the right direction would be awesome.


-Nathan
 
Nathan Schnur said:
Hi,

I am strongly considering making an attempt at writing a radar app for Android since I dislike most of the ones currently available. Now I'd have no problem going out and grabbing images and using them for the radar image but I'd like to try and convert the raw NWS data into an image (Similar to GRLevel3 and StormLab). I am assuming this is no easy task. Is there documentation anywhere that even begins to describe how to do this or where you can even gather the raw data from?

I'd consider myself a decent developer but this brand new territory so any help in the right direction would be awesome.


-Nathan
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Hi Nathan,

On NOAA's web site with the Weather Climate Toolkit for Java you can find the Level 3 Documentation by going to their document library.

The Weather Climate Toolkit for Java provides great source code for processing images:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/wct/

The source code is available under API/Download Source.

Here is a direct link to the Level 3 Documentation of the NIDS format.
http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/documentlibrary/tddoc/td7000.pdf

(Source: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/doclib/)

Let me know if you need any help.

Thanks,
Christopher Zenzel
 
Nathan Schnur said:
Hi,

I am strongly considering making an attempt at writing a radar app for Android since I dislike most of the ones currently available. Now I'd have no problem going out and grabbing images and using them for the radar image but I'd like to try and convert the raw NWS data into an image (Similar to GRLevel3 and StormLab). I am assuming this is no easy task. Is there documentation anywhere that even begins to describe how to do this or where you can even gather the raw data from?

I'd consider myself a decent developer but this brand new territory so any help in the right direction would be awesome.


-Nathan
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A App is already in development and will be available this fall It will be all that you describe and have several other features that put it above any other app currently on mobile phones on any platform if you look around the forums I have made posts about it before. So if you can wait until fall you might not have to do all the hard work that goes into development and you will have a great app to use.
 
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