I made the existing arrangements with Brian Bose, then head of the Aviation Department BOM PERTH, for this information to be made accessible to Internode. Brian had his technical people talk with Internode and that was the end of my involvement.
I do remember that this was not a free service at that time as it did not meet the criteria for the then published free data set like the historical free weather issued for fishermen or the media outlets to inform the public what their day might be like. This was at a time when BOM were directed to embrace the "user pay philosophy." I think the reason being Weatherzone and the NZ BOM were otherwise likely to push our BOM out of the way with an arguably better service while using the Bureau's own data? I had earlier tried to argue why we as tax payers should have to wait for our time critical gliding information to come via the University of Wyoming whom pressumably got their data free from the Australian tax payer. I think Brian then managed to get us some time by piggy backing us to an existing "client". I didn't want to know the details and perhaps Brian wouldn't have any recollection of this now;-) Regardless, I believe we got a good free service from BOM, a SA gliding enthusiest who wrote the original gliding friendly programme (sorry, forget your name but in the acknowledgements on the Internode site) and of course Internode for setting all this up to sound the BOM every few minutes to get the latest data, massage that data so we might understand it and then make it available free. A truly collaborative effort. I don't know where we can reasonably expect to go from here given this history. Kind regards, Daryl On 20 Aug 2014 15:48, "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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > > *Borgelt Instruments* - > *design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation since 1978 * > www.borgeltinstruments.com > tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784 > mob: 042835 5784 : int+61-42835 5784 > P O Box 4607, Toowoomba East, QLD 4350, Australia > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring >
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