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Old 30th January 2006, 10:14 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Re: New Australian Weather(BOM) /News Addin - 'Big Screen Portal'

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Originally Posted by philzgr8
Niall you have seriously made my day. This is totally awesome and I don't generally like installing a lot of 3rd party stuff so from me that's high praise.

Here's a suggestion for adding a something a bit special... Is it possible that the app could replicate the animated radar and sattelite image capabilities of the BOM website. In particular the animated radar gives you a very accurate picture of what's happening and generally it's only about 10 minutes off real time. I have found that feature more useful than all the forecasting put together as it gives me an indication of what the weather will be like (rainfall wise anyway) for the next couple of hours. Most golfers, fishermen etc will find it impossible to do without once they've seen it. I would recommend retaining the last 6 or more images to provide a better picture than what BOM themselves provide.

Anyway mate... reps from me... big time!
Hi - thanks glad u like it..

I had a similar suggestion from a mate (and plan to include this in my next version as I am scraping all the required data anyhow for the 4 frame loop)... My friend also had same idea of keeping historical pics until deleted (so a movie file could be made after a few days)..

But yeah - I wonder if the forecasters are on some heavy medication sometimes its so innacurate...

cheers

Niall
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