PYKL3 Radar App and Spotter Network

[David Williams]

I had a question for anyone who might also use PYKL3 coupled with the spotter network gps overlays. Recently I have noticed this getting worse but the green dots that represent active chaser gps locations are populating the screen far more than what seems realistic. I know that there are more chasers than ever and chaser convergence would be represented on the radar screen however I will check spotter network in order to see how many green GPS dots are shown in there and the numbers are far fewer. For instance yesterday I was following a severe line that passed through Tulsa Oklahoma and not only were there a good 12 to 15 green dots spread throughout the 2 severe boxes OKC had a cluster of 15 to 20 and I scrolled down to DFW and 10 or so were there. I checked spotter network and there were only about 13 active green gps icons on the entire CONES and 2 were around ne OK. Anyone know what the deal is?

 

[John Bowles]

I had a question for anyone who might also use PYKL3 coupled with the spotter network gps overlays. Recently I have noticed this getting worse but the green dots that represent active chaser gps locations are populating the screen far more than what seems realistic. I know that there are more chasers than ever and chaser convergence would be represented on the radar screen however I will check spotter network in order to see how many green GPS dots are shown in there and the numbers are far fewer. For instance yesterday I was following a severe line that passed through Tulsa Oklahoma and not only were there a good 12 to 15 green dots spread throughout the 2 severe boxes OKC had a cluster of 15 to 20 and I scrolled down to DFW and 10 or so were there. I checked spotter network and there were only about 13 active green gps icons on the entire CONES and 2 were around ne OK. Anyone know what the deal is?

The SN map does not show as many users as the SN placefiles, which is likely what PYKL3 is using. I'm not sure what filtering they are doing for their map, since it doesn't agree with either the all SN users placefile or the filtered users placefile in GR3.

I get identical SN maps in GR3 and PYKL3 with the all user placefile, but different colors. I get a somewhat smaller list of users in GREarth, but still more than the filtered list. The SN KML file loaded in Google Earth is completely different from any of them, and the SN web map shows the fewest of all.

Many users listed on SN are stationary, however that isn't how they are being filtered because several stationary users show up on the SN map and several mobile users don't.