bkdelong
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Good point. Perhaps somewhere in the KMZ popups/label/description you can put a link. Definitely worth talking to them about it - I'll send an email.
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BigJacko
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Cool - thanks.
I've signed up for the Beta-Dev program - we'll see what happens in due course when they respond.
It looks like a great idea (and I can think of other uses for it too, aside from this project  ).
If we can do it, it's probably better-suited to Paul's original idea of actually grabbing ALL the data, and reprocessing it into a bunch of similarly-scaled images, so that there is less overall pressure on the NWS servers.
It would mean a fair bit of re-coding here, but I might work on it if anyone's still interested (and if time permits).
At the moment, I have a PHP file on my home-server, which fetches the geo-location data, and rebuilds the KMZ file every hour. People using the Network-Link re-fetch that KMZ from me every hour, and then their machines in turn, fetch the selected images direct from the NWS (but with hopefully geo-location positions that are less than an hour old, so not too far drifted).
Currently, I have the PHP running as a sheduled task on my server, so it merely 'dumps' the new KMZ to the location where the Network Link points to...
...which leads me to another problem... is there a way of making a NING PHP app run on a scheduled basis, or have they coded the site in such a way that they expect people to actually VISIT the php file itself?
I guess I can re-code it, so that it goes back to a network-link to a php file which does a 'live' re-fetch from NWS and spits out the geo-formatted KMZ - but that then means 'random-access' hits on NWS for the geo-location data, thus adding to their load.
I wish we could make the NWS host this themselves - it'd be great!
More to the point, I wish GE could be made a little 'smarter' so we can stop users from dragging the whole set of radar images back at once, by clicking that top-level folder... Surprised we've not heard any comment from the GE Devs on this score 
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bkdelong
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Well, they created RSS files and podcasts....why wouldn't the same group do conversions to KMZ files? Need to find the right people.
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bkdelong
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Hey Paul -
I have Tropical Invest AL922005 which I thought became TS Tammy, yes? Should the Invest still be lingering?
Also, a new Invest popped up, (AL932005), almost in the exact area Stan originated in. Is this a new one?
Finally, where is the URL you get your Invest info from?
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CapeVerde
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The upper ocean content layer would be very useful. And if you can ever figure out how to add some of the other model forecasts like the ukmet or gfdl models, I'll be thrilled!
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gecci
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Hi there,
This is great stuff. I was interested in digging into the implementation a little more. You mention:
"pulls the lastest forecast tracks and predicted strength for tropical named storms (Depression, Storm, Hurricane) from the National Hurricane Center"
Would you mind posting a little more detail here? Like, where exactly did you go for this data? Is it an rss feed that you need to parse and geocode?
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rosdol
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Hi, I was just using GE with the tropical forecast data. I am getting old data (i.e. storm Beta and AL902005)
Currently there is only TD 27 active in the carribean. the forecast tracks seem to be out of date.
I have downloaded and reinstallled NHC_Models1.knl but still the old tracks.
Any solution ??
thanks and regards
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SoFlaChris
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Concur... Seeing same here. (Forgive the "me too" post... Just enthusiastic)
Chris
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ItsAllInYourHead
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Okay, what happened to this network link? I'm shocked people haven't been asking about this all over the place!
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bkdelong
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Okay, what happened to this network link? I'm shocked people haven't been asking about this all over the place!
I emailed Paul directly to see what's up and if he needs network hosting due to bandwidth issues.
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