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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It would be interesting if you could take that data and draw polygons or contour lines based on the data values, much like the isobar lines on weather maps. This could be done for wind speed, temperature, rainfall and barometric pressure.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thank You,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Brian N2KGC<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> aprssig [mailto:aprssig-bounces@tapr.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>spam8mybrain<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 08, 2016 9:42 PM<br><b>To:</b> Robert Bruninga; TAPR APRS Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [aprssig] FEMA - APRS data mining...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Hi, Bob.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>You just gave me a good enhancement idea for the next build of YAAC.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>YAAC already supports filtering for traffic containing weather data. I'm going to augment that so it could filter data based on wind speed (ex.: only show stations reporting wind speed in excess of X mph, X user-specified). YAAC already can plot weather stations using the old-style wind-barb symbols in place of the UIView WX icon (user-selected), so it already has an easy visual of stations in very windy areas.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>P.S. YAAC is one of those programs that color-codes stations by the APRSdos statuses and by Mic-E status (simultaneously), and supports all of the extended symbol overlays you have defined. It also has been tested connected to FireNet with a range filter covering the entire North American continent and it can keep up with the data rate.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>I hope this is the kind of info you're looking for.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Andrew Pavlin, KA2DDO <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>author of YAAC <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Robert Bruninga <<a href="mailto:bruninga@usna.edu">bruninga@usna.edu</a>> <br>Date: 9/8/16 8:50 PM (GMT-05:00) <br>To: TAPR APRS Mailing List <<a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a>> <br>Subject: [aprssig] FEMA - APRS data mining... <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>FEMA Technical Office would like to mine APRS data for better field data. The main thing they want is a better way to SEE big pictures concepts quickly.. <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'>For a decade, FEMA uses the "Waffle house index" they get from Waffle house to show in RED, YELLOW, GREEN, NORMAL coloring attributes on 1700 Waffle houses throughout hurricane zone so they can see instantly, the big picture of conditions.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'>See the FEMA Waffle index!<br><a href="http://www.popsci.com/article/science/how-waffle-house-became-disaster-indicator-fema">http://www.popsci.com/article/science/how-waffle-house-became-disaster-indicator-fema</a><br><br>FEMA asked if APRS could do this...<br><br>FEMA thought that APRS only had a dozen symbols (They had been watching a D700 display only), I pointed out that APRS has always had nearly 200 symbols each with up to 8 color attributes (only APRSdos displays the colors I think)..., but even those 200 were expanded in 2008 or so to nearly 3000 of which over 135 have been defined but most clients have not painted them all in yet. <br><br>This was done through overlays so that they are all backwards compatible on older systems as a base symbol with a letter overlay, but they can be fully painted out to be a whole new symbol as clients wish.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'>See: <a href="http://aprs.org/symbols/symbols-new.txt">http://aprs.org/symbols/symbols-new.txt</a><br><br>APRSdos had these color attributes on every symbol but this layer was not implemented by most clients that just use ICONs. I believe some clients have implemented it, but I have not kept up.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'>Hessu was working on a common updated data base.... (how's that going?)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'>I asked the FEMA to tell me their top priority symbols and I would see how well they mapped to APRS symbols and get myself up to speed on where we are with symbols..<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'>So, I am open for you APRS gurus to fill me in on any progress on symbols beyond what I have been tracking on <a href="http://aprs.org/symbols.html">http://aprs.org/symbols.html</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'>Important people want to know...<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>bob, WB4aPR<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>