Falcon BMS - Interactive Maps
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Update May 2nd 2023
- ADDED: Performance optimizations (canvas refresh, ruler, mouse listeners )
- ADDED: Improved network loading times
- ADDED: Quick min/max zoom with Shift.
- ADDED: Additional map filters for night mode and higher contrasts.
- ADDED: Cloud Rendering for SCT, BKN and OVC.
- ADDED: Adjust window size to new chart width x height ratio
- ADDED: Whiteboard.png stacking (hold ShiftKey and drag and drop)
- ADDED: Added more Symbology (For Air, Sea and Land)
- ADDED: Multi version .fmap support (version 5, 8 )
- FIXED: Draw Bullseye always on top
Thanks to @ohommes again for this beautiful update!
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@Micro_440th thank You for this nice update and video.
It is very clear, but I have one comment.
Adding the C2 symbols is working fine, when opened from the website.
After installing to my local drive I cannot add these symbols anymore.Kind regards,
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Okay. Will test.
You exported probably? -
@Falcon316
This behavior is fully documented in the Manual that is NOW available; When you use local file access (see Section: 6.2 Local Map Access) by opening a local index.html as a file from your browser.It discusses that you are violating the CORS access policy of the browser. No random file access is allowed using the file:// URL. You need to start your browser with a flag or setup a local webserver so you donāt have file:// document roots. From a webserver you have an https:// or http:// document access which is considered safe.
So only if you use local access (meaning you downloaded the files and donāt setup a local webserver) . On macOS with Chrome you can give the permission as follows:
/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --flag- switches-begin --allow-file-access-from-files --flag-switches-end
On Windows 11 it will be similar. Edge I think has the same/similar flag just like most browsers. Before staring a new browser with this stop all the existing (e.g. Chrome) and the launch from the command-line or shortcut with the permissive flag. Again this is only needed if you donāt setup a webserver and just open the index file.
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Are the coordinates of this interactive map supposed to match the coordinates of the map in WDP?
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@jc1 No. The X,Y in interactive maps are the HTML image map coordinates which are used for airport x, y verification in the HTML code.
<area shape="circle" coords="1589,3151,17" ...
The Lat/Long in the Interactive Maps is calculated based on a curved Earth surface and the projection of the current map is not doing this and so there are discrepancies away from the center. In a future release BMS might have a different map projection is my understanding so I will stick to that calculation for now. I can switch the algorithm if preferred.
The X, Y on the map are the tooltip coordinates for the Map airport look up in HTML and not the WDP X,Y
Conversion to WDP is easy:
WDP.Y = 4096- Map.Y
WDP.X = Map.XThe .ini are using coordinate origin in FT from the bottom left corner but the image in HTML uses origin at top left.
Hope this helps to understand the difference. The WDP X,Y have no utilization for the HTML map tag which I need for the airport locations (see HTML code).
See section 7.1 of the manual why the X,Y coordinates are there to support map development and verification.
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Update June 4th:
- Added Calculated Playtime
- Added Mission Package Flight Data inputs
- Added Mission Datacard (Mission Briefing)
- Added Weather Report (Weather Briefing)
- Interactive Maps Documentation sections 3.4 changed and 3.5 added
Cheers
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@Micro_440th Quick screenshot
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the air refuelling (if planned) must be taken into account to get the correct Bingo otherwise it is wrong
and if there is a refueling planned, a Loto must be also defined ( this is the minimum fuel needed to refuel safely before being forced to land on an alernate runway).
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@suhkoi69
If the Refuel is part of the flight plan I can look at that. Can you be more precise in explanation; I assume the Loto is used to reach the tanker and be able to have time to refuel safely or reach an airport either alternate or homeplate. Is bingo in this case the fuel needed to reach home/alternate from the tanker in case you you didnāt get to take on the lbs? and Loto the minimum fuel needed to reach the tanker and safely refuel?If you give me some more details I would appreciate it.
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Hi folks!
Another massive update on the Interactive Maps front. Thanks to @ohommes for this beauty!Now, the Interactive Maps are truly āinteractiveā with a new option to host a server for online whiteboard collaboration (see chapter 3.5 in the manual)
In addition, it is now possible to import GFS (Global Forecast System) live weather data and save it as an.fmap.
Changelog June 26th 2023
- Download and Import GFS data and files
- Save GFS data as .fmap
- Added Map Laser pointer
- Full whiteboard collaboration using collaboration server
- Improved METAR with Haze weather type added
- Fixed Map Legend location for Balkan and ITO ghost legend
- Fixed Bullseye not scaling properly with zoom
- Fixed Lat/Long coordinates scaler
Cheers
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@Micro_440th Will the doppler effect ever show the four colors, blue-sunny, green-fair, yellow-poor, and red-inclement?
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@jc1 This is a misunderstanding of the Doppler chart. It only shows rain like a real doppler radar so that shows only in Inclement weather in BMS. BMS Type 1,2,3,4 as blue-sunny, green-fair, yellow-poor, and red-inclement is just a simulation type; It is a weather type and has no equivalent in the real world.
I kinda show it in the temperature chart (The weather channel look) with the icons, 1= Sunny Icon, 2= Partly CLoudy and 3 = Cloudy and 4 is Cloud with Rain icon. So you have the data but I try to give you only real weather charts.
The Doppler chart is a real rain sensor simulation for picking up Rain radar returns and does a simulated radar sweep (Hence the circular scan visual). If you pull down real GFS data and you see actual Rain Icon in the Temperature chart then check on the Doppler and you see where actual rain is detected.
If many people want to see the BMS type info I can add the charts.
If people want the BMS type color chart, Temp color chart and Pressure color charts I can add those.
Just upvote here and I will add if enough people vote for it.
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@jc1 it does already
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@Micro_440th I donāt think so. @ohommes, in the post just before yours, is taking a vote to see if he will add it.
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@jc1 The Type is there on the Temperature Chart because THAT shows the BMS type with icons but I will add more explicit rendering if people really like to see the design charts like you see in Weather Commander. I was initially only planning for real weather charts only but people get confused and seem to want to see the Weather types with colors.
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@ohommes Iāll go for the colors and update the vote survey.
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Update July 06th 2023
- Public collaboration server available on www.falcon-bms.com
- For connection info, please refer to section 2.5.1.2 of the Interactive Maps manual