About the same.

   - mark

> On 20 Aug 2014, at 17:47, Mike Borgelt <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> How does the timing of the latest chart compare with simply getting it here?
> 
> http://www.bom.gov.au/aviation/observations/aerological-diagrams/
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> At 04:49 PM 20/08/2014, you wrote:
>> G’day.
>> 
>> I’ve recently received email from the Bureau of Meteorology to say that the 
>> data feed they’ve historically provided to make 
>> http://slash.dotat.org/cgi-bin/atmos work will, in future, cost $1125 per 
>> annum.
>> 
>> Or, more to the point:  The data itself will continue to be free, but 
>> there’s a $1125 per annum fee to be a registered user of it.
>> 
>> I can get similar data at no cost from University of Wyoming’s Upper Air 
>> Project.  In my experience, the sounding data from there is delayed by an 
>> hour or so, because they get it from the BoM too, then process it before 
>> they make it available.
>> 
>> I see a non-trivial number of HTTP server hits on my website, so I know 
>> people are still using the facility. But server hits don’t tell me if 
>> they’re getting value out of it.
>> 
>> So:  Is it still useful?
>> 
>> My options, as I see them, are:
>> 
>> 1.  Pay BoM,
>> 2.  Refactor the code to fetch from UoW, and accept that it’ll run a little 
>> bit late; or
>> 3.  Shut down the site.
>> 
>> Currently leaning towards (2), but nobody is getting value out of it then 
>> (3) is clearly my path of least resistance.
>> 
>> Thoughts, comments, requests?
>> 
>>   - mark
>> 
>> 
>> 
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