Marl, Thanks for this work over the years. Although the service may be delayed I consider option 2 is the way to go. I use your data as a teaching aid as part of a gliding course run by a Darwin high school as well as at my gliding club. I find the display less cluttered than the BOM information and therefore less confusing for the students when introducing them to this type of forecasting tool.
Reg Moore > On 20 Aug 2014, at 4:19 pm, Mark Newton <[email protected]> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
