Meteorological Spring has arrived. Yes, March Madness is here....I love this month!!
If you haven't seen it, GR3 ver 1.70 is out and it's a great improvement with the addition of high-resolution L3 data. Awesome stuff! This is a fantastic addition for the upcoming severe weather season.
I've been tinkering around with a few random projects in the last couple of weeks. Not the fog channel stuff though but some other things. While I'm having no problem with it working on my Windows XP machine, my new Windows 7 box is giving me some grief. Every time I run URL2File within my scripts on this new machine, I get a prompt box for every line of code (Do you want Windows to make changes to this machine?). I thought I had all of the proper boxes and settings checked to let this run but something is amiss. I'm not sure what I'm missing but it's frustrating to say the least! And until I figure it out, I'm reluctant to release any new improvements/additions to my projects.
Anyone have any ideas?
Monday, March 1, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Into February
No new updates to tell you about this morning. I haven't come across any new Kansas web cams in the last few weeks while searching the web. If you stumble across one, please let me know. I'm always eager to add more to the camera scripts.
A little side project I've dabbled with here lately is adding fog channel imagery to GR3. We have had a ton of fog around Wichita over the last few weeks. Obviously, that presents some forecasting headaches so if it's out there, I want to know.
The problem with the imagery that's available on the web either ends early (like around 5:15am local time) or it has some kind of time stamp in the URL, making it impossible to look for a static address to put in the placefile. I'll keep on this and hope to come up with a solution soon.
A little side project I've dabbled with here lately is adding fog channel imagery to GR3. We have had a ton of fog around Wichita over the last few weeks. Obviously, that presents some forecasting headaches so if it's out there, I want to know.
The problem with the imagery that's available on the web either ends early (like around 5:15am local time) or it has some kind of time stamp in the URL, making it impossible to look for a static address to put in the placefile. I'll keep on this and hope to come up with a solution soon.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Happy New Year
Whew...at last! We're set to close the book on 2009 and over the past couple of days, I'm closing the book on my latest update. I've (finally!) got the KDOT cameras added to the fray and have added/tweaked others too. Thanks for your patience on this!
On the right hand part of the page, scroll down until you see "kscambat.txt" and "kscampf.txt".
Since a few of the KDOT cameras are co-located with each other (i.e. @ Walker along I-70) I've kept a handful of them out of the scripts. Otherwise, don't be surprised to see a few of them down from time to time. It just happens with technology.
An interesting stat: we're up to 91 cameras now officially in my scripts! That's quite an improvement since the project began in late summer 2006. Hopefully, we'll add a few more in the coming year.
If I have any New Year's resolution concerning this blog, it would be to update it more often. And that's what I'll try to do. From the GRLevel3Geek: Happy New Year!
On the right hand part of the page, scroll down until you see "kscambat.txt" and "kscampf.txt".
Since a few of the KDOT cameras are co-located with each other (i.e. @ Walker along I-70) I've kept a handful of them out of the scripts. Otherwise, don't be surprised to see a few of them down from time to time. It just happens with technology.
An interesting stat: we're up to 91 cameras now officially in my scripts! That's quite an improvement since the project began in late summer 2006. Hopefully, we'll add a few more in the coming year.
If I have any New Year's resolution concerning this blog, it would be to update it more often. And that's what I'll try to do. From the GRLevel3Geek: Happy New Year!
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Stuff in the Queue
I was very excited to learn that KDOT has finally made available 25 new web cameras along I-70. This information is available on their website . I'm quite busy with a number of projects at home and at work, so I'll be working on adding this data to the web cam project as time allows. I'd like to turn it around faster but I'm afraid that won't happen.
Stay tuned for more updates...
Stay tuned for more updates...
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Major Housecleaning
It had been a few weeks since I went though the entire list of Kansas camera sites and I was disappointed to see so many cameras down (16). It's not uncommon to see some of the school sites down during the summer as there's nobody at the school on a regular basis. But it wasn't just some school sites though. I did a little house cleaning and got things back in order.
Unfortunately, I have no new cameras to add. I did my usual search with Google for "Kansas web cams" and "Kansas construction cams"....even used the new site "bing.com" that I've seen advertised. No luck. I think I've pretty much given up on KDOT getting their site up anytime soon. Hopefully they will prove me wrong. It's a downer when they advertised it coming on-line "early First Quarter 2009" and we're just into 3Q now.
Unfortunately, I have no new cameras to add. I did my usual search with Google for "Kansas web cams" and "Kansas construction cams"....even used the new site "bing.com" that I've seen advertised. No luck. I think I've pretty much given up on KDOT getting their site up anytime soon. Hopefully they will prove me wrong. It's a downer when they advertised it coming on-line "early First Quarter 2009" and we're just into 3Q now.
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