Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps
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@Abe if you select another tool and/or remove the left mouse, it should stay.
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@jayb said in Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps:
Sorry for being dense but how does the ruler work? If I select it and draw I get the distance+radial measure. Please help a map noob ️
To your description it works as intended:-)
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@Micro_440th Yes, that works. I will just have to make sure I do that each time. Thank you.
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@Micro_440th Ah I see, haha. That function was there before the ruler, so I thought that the ruler tool was something else like an aid for annotation with straight lines or something
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@Abe if you see the Bullseye icon is selected (black background) you are in Bullseye mode which means you will move it if you click the map. If you don’t have the black selection showing it means you have an old version or bullseye is in disable mode. Also if the bullseye icon is selected and you press it again it will disable rendering the bullseye to declutter. And it will show a non-selection for the toolbar icon.
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Update August 10th 2022
- Added ITO + Balkans theater - Route Waypoint dialog (step through waypoint actions, heading and distance). - .fmap Drop and processing - Weather charts (Temperature, Doppler, winds, Isobars) - Settings Dialog (Layer visibility, Chart selection, Unit selection and winds at altitude) - Map dragging as default mode. - Minor bug fixes
Known issues
- When dropping .ini or fmap while modal dialog is open will open the file.
- Zoom function not working yet
- Empty your browser cache to make sure you use the latest version
Weather .fmap drop
Route Waypoint dialog
Enjoy
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@Micro_440th Fantastic stuff, thank you. The drag control is awesome
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One suggestion for future version(s):
With the steerpoints and being able to step through them, it would be nice if the current one was emphasized as you go through them. Like double circle/symbol size, different color while selected, solid circle (with some opacity) or something else.
Cheers,
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Some notes on the Doppler Radar since BMS only gives 4 Weather types and lots of other stuff to work with. Radar returns are only assumed to occur when the weather type is Inclement (i.e. 4). Within those areas the doppler “simulator” searches for possible thunder cells (~ 1005 mbar and below) and extreme lows. It also looks for Frontal zones (temperatures gradient greater than ~10 C) in the about 10 NM transition area. The algorithm uses this to create scores for cells (which are oversampled at 8x the Weather types) and increases scores based on what it finds (e.g. high winds are factored in). Then add RADAR noise to the mixed and transition filter and that is what the Doppler shows as predicted precipitation intensity. And yes it will show snow on the surface if temps are below freezing. Hope that explains the Doppler a bit. The temperature chart gives the temperature and the Weather type (when it is snowing it will show snow). I am sure you can figure out which symbol is which weather type. Dew point will be added at some point. Enjoy.
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The ruler shows Range-Bearing. Can you switch it to Bearing-Range?
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@jc1 I guess that makes sense.
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@jc1 minor issue but I thought about that as well. Switching would make it conform to a bullseye call format
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Just a second ago I did a refresh and a bad/old JS is deployed with the latest HTML. Not sure what happened. It happened just a few minutes ago. I will try to notify @Micro to fix the deployment. So map_actions.js don’t matcher the toolbar. If you download the zip file you get the correct map_actions.js but the deployed is a mix of new and old and not what is in that zip file.
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@ohommes said in Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps:
Just a second ago I did a refresh and a bad/old JS is deployed with the latest HTML. Not sure what happened. It happened just a few minutes ago. I will try to notify @Micro to fix the deployment. So map_actions.js don’t matcher the toolbar. If you download the zip file you get the correct map_actions.js but the deployed is a mix of new and old and not what is in that zip file.
Tomorrow morning I will investigate. So only KTO seems corrupt, not the rest. Stay tuned for a fix ASAP
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@Micro_440th I wiped my history and it seems to work again. Not sure why my browser would self revert to an old cache. So maybe false alarm.
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@ohommes How is the Doppler image supposed to work? At the top of the picture is an fmap I got from Weather Commander where I put some inclement weather around Gunsan. The bottom of the picture show how it looks in the Interactive Map.
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@jc1 said in Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps:
@ohommes How is the Doppler image supposed to work? At the top of the picture is an fmap I got from Weather Commander where I put some inclement weather around Gunsan. The bottom of the picture show how it looks in the Interactive Map.
Can you send the fmap so we can investigate?
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@jc1 What you see is correct; The weather map just shows the types and when you draw your own stuff and just draw some weather without matching pressure and winds and temps you get pretty much what you draw. The fake weather stands out like a sorethumb. Also I posted earlier how the Doppler works and so if you just draw the weather types and you have no good idea how pressure systems work and winds then you get exactly what you see now. Remember doppler only sees rain fall of a minimum in tensity and so only inclement areas of your Weather Commander are resulting in possible doppler returns. Did you read my previous post on how the doppler works? So from what I see what you have drawn in weather commander is just to simple. Real weather doesn’t look like that but if you draw it like that and not put in correct pressure systems than the doppler looks too simple like you have. Download real weather with F4Wx and you will get real stuff. So from what I see you have drawn in Weather commander the doppler is correct. I can send you a few real KTO weather fmaps from July 23rd this year.: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TPTc5yVK9ruPYkJV74ofVPvI-GfsdCuf/view?usp=sharing
This is real data and real pressure systems. So remember this is a doppler simulator which looks at the inclement weather and scores the pressure systems and winds and frontal zones and adds random radar noise but when you draw simple weather types you will also get simple unrealistic doppler radar. Hope this helps and please read the other post I wrote today about the doppler RADAR.
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@Micro_440th The doppler radar looks at many things to predict where there is rain intensity but that does require real weather data and simple put together weather types will stand out. Add real pressure and winds and understand thunder cells and low pressure basic heuristics and it will look like the real thing. The offset is concerning though. I would like to check that.