• 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.

Software -- Weather station tables

Tim Vasquez

Tim Vasquez

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I thought I would check with anyone who dabbles in programming or has products out there and uses weather station tables.

I am working on the next Digital Atmosphere version this week and have decided to produce a highly standardized, comprehensive worldwide station table that is essentially public domain and which anyone can use and reproduce at any time without any restriction. It will probably be in CSV format and will bring together the existing DA table and some data merges from the WBAN, some international sources, and so forth, and have each row cross-referenced with all identifiers, date boundaries, etc.

Weather Graphics will probably remain the source for the "official" version. A few of my key users are already maintain the Dig. Atm. station table, bringing it up to date continuously based on NWSTG bulletins, WMO changes, and so forth, and this would bring this task toward a more worthwhile and beneficial purpose. One problem we have of course is that there are a multitude of sources, formats, and varying data quality (see http://www.weathergraphics.com/identifiers/ ).

So if you refer to station tables in your work or hobbies, consider this as an invite to speak out and let me know where you'd like to see this go.

Tim
 
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