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dpaulat / supercell-wx

Supercell Wx is a free, open source advanced weather radar viewer.
https://supercell-wx.rtfd.io
MIT License
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Outstanding work, just a few requests if possible #242

Open githubuser055 opened 2 months ago

githubuser055 commented 2 months ago

. Possible to further compact the top of the radar toolbox where it lists the site ID, location and VCP information to use less space? Also, it would be nice to show whether SAILS/MRLE and AVSET are active in the VCP or not.

. If you are able to add a radar elevation field to the NEXRAD Site database, you could use the elevation angle from the radar site to show the beam height centerline in feet AGL when the user presses the Shift key to sample the return data (eg. 55.4 dBZ at 14,526 ft AGL)

. If shapefiles could be supported, it would further reduce the dependence on using a map service for geographic information. Otherwise, placefiles can be derived from GIS shapefiles to plot coastlines and states, counties/parishes are probably too much to handle.

. Distance from cursor to radar site (user selected units) on the toolbar beside the lat/lon readout

. Alarms that support more than one county or lat/lon would be helpful

dpaulat commented 2 months ago

. Possible to further compact the top of the radar toolbox where it lists the site ID, location and VCP information to use less space? Also, it would be nice to show whether SAILS/MRLE and AVSET are active in the VCP or not.

This shouldn't be too difficult, the information is already there.

. If you are able to add a radar elevation field to the NEXRAD Site database, you could use the elevation angle from the radar site to show the beam height centerline in feet AGL when the user presses the Shift key to sample the return data (eg. 55.4 dBZ at 14,526 ft AGL)

Radar elevation was added to the configuration file a couple weeks ago, and it shouldn't be too difficult to add to the application now. It will be MSL altitude (for now), as AGL also requires detailed ground elevation data.

. If shapefiles could be supported, it would further reduce the dependence on using a map service for geographic information. Otherwise, placefiles can be derived from GIS shapefiles to plot coastlines and states, counties/parishes are probably too much to handle.

I do plan to support shapefiles later this year when adding GRIB2 support (the plan is to use the GDAL library which has extensive format support).

. Distance from cursor to radar site (user selected units) on the toolbar beside the lat/lon readout

Sure!

. Alarms that support more than one county or lat/lon would be helpful

There is also an "All" selection in the development snapshot, to be in the pending release.