[Release] Grb2fmap - GRIB to BMS Converter
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Aswome.
i may update the weather engine, to include cumulus coverage and visibility within the cells
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Looks really interesting !
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Thank you, I will play with weather today!:-)
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Fantastic!
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Is that correct? I have prepared 80 fmaps for next days and their names go like this:
10500.fmap - 5 AM
10800.fmap - 8 AM
11100.fmap - 11 AM
11400.fmap - 14 PM
11700.fmap - 17 PM
12000.fmap - 20 PM
12300.fmap - 23 PM
12600.fmap - ā26ā PM (?) = 2 AM - shouldnāt it be named 20200.fmap? -
EDIT: v0.3 fixing this available on the first post
As compensation , the weekend is looking better to get the viper downtown into Pyongyang
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Bravo!
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GREAT!
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Thank you for this little, but very nice tool!!
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Thank you very much, just did a quick test, looks quite good and very simple!
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Hey Ahmed,
Great stuff! Let me ask you one thing: Did you hack the fmap format or how are you writing it? Can you please share it?
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Ironically Iām just finishing up the same utilityā¦
Had to take some time to reverse the fmap file due to the lack of info.
One question if anyone would be so kind to answer, can BMS 4.33 use the full precision of the floating point numbers or should they be rounded to be optimized with the code? (see cursor values below)
Was going to use linear interpolation for the points but seems bilinear would be the best way to appropriate the data as the GRIB sample sets donāt match 59x59 by default, unless Iām missing something (which is probably the case lol). This also brings up the question of why 59x59 is used in the first place.
Question to the OPā¦ Did you have to interpolate your GRIB data or was the selection size sufficient? My current method was to plot existing lat/long in the sample set and then extrapolate to a large grid using %. In my example below it only shows the sample set (GRIB) not yet interpolated.
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Khronik, no there is no interpolation used at the moment (that is what I referred to as āsmoothingā in the OP) but it would be a very easy thing to add. I may add it on a future version.
I didnāt worry about it as the effects are surely quite unnoticeable in-sim. I would go for simple, though, and not worry about projections, for the same previous reason.
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I canāt get the file to run. I tried it many times. it shows the process running 3x but no action. I also canāt end the process through task manager. I have to restart my machine to get them to end. I also tried running in Adminitrator. Still no go. Iām using Windows 7 Pro.
Edit: it works fine on my windows 10 laptop
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Jambo, glad you got it working! I really canāt assist you on the other PC without any more information. I use Windows 7 Pro myself without any problem.
As for the discussion above about interpolation I have implemented bilinear interpolation and the results where so surprising that I have released a new version (v0.4). Available on the first post.
This one is most likely the final, unless somebody finds any significant bugs (please dont!)
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Thanks so much Ahmed,
Please can you also save āstarting timeā into ini file? Only this last setting is not saved;-)Cheers Obi1
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Awesome tool, thank you so much!
Iād love if it could bypass ZyGRIB altogether and download and convert GRIB data on its own, but this would be asked a bit too much, I think.
(Is an automated download for a selected area possible with any GRIB tool at all? Google does not provide a definite answer.)
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Iāll think about thatā¦ without removing the option to load random .grb files as well. But it will have to wait until I have time off work again!