<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="keywords" content="weather, radar, nexrad, level-ii, virtual globe, grits, rsl" >
- <meta name="description" content="AWeather is a free advanced real-time weather data viewer
+ <meta name="description" content="AWeather is a free real-time weather data viewer
that supports Level-II NEXRAD files, polarimetric radars, and volume rendering." >
</head>
<body>
and IDV.
</p>
<hr />
- <h2>Licencing</h2>
- <p>AWeather is free software licensed under the terms of the
- <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GNU GPL</a>.
- As such, it can be used by any individuals or organizations
- without any license fees or royalties.</p>
<h2>Features</h2>
<div class="col">
<li>Animation</li>
</ul>
</div>
+
+ <div style="clear:both;"></div>
+ <h2>Licencing</h2>
+ <p>AWeather is free software licensed under the terms of the
+ <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GNU GPL</a>.
+ As such, it can be used by any individuals or organizations
+ without any license fees or royalties.</p>
<% } %>
<% void print_news(void) { %>
<dd>
AWeather 0.5 released: <ul>
<li>Support for volume rendering (isosurfaces)</li>
- <li>Automatically update</li>
+ <li>Automatic updating</li>
<li>Fullscreen mode</li>
<li>Dropped GtkGLExt</li>
</ul>
<li>Fixed lots of bugs</li>
<li>General code cleanup</li>
<li>Available from <a href="files/">files</a> directory
- and <a href="/git/?p=~spenceal/rsl">git</a></li>
+ and <a href="<%= GW_RSL %>">git</a></li>
</ul>
<b>Update:</b> AWeather 0.5 is also compatible with the
newly released RSL v1.41</li>
progress is being made on libgis, which is now able to display
a virtual globe using data from NASA servers.</dd>
</dl>
- <p class="note">See also: AWeather's <a href="/git/?p=proj/aweather">gitweb</a></p>
+ <p class="note">See also: AWeather's <a href="<%= GW_AWEATHER %>">gitweb</a></p>
<% } %>
<% void print_screenshots(void) { %>
<p>
AWeather provides a consistent user interface that allows the
user to zoom in from a high level view of the entire Earth down
- to regional and microscale views.
+ to regional and mesoscale views.
</p>
- <hr />
+
<ul class="gallery">
<li>
<% print_screen("synop"); %>
- High level view using grits
+ High level view using Grits
</li>
<li>
<% print_screen("region"); %>
- Regional view of a storm front
+ Regional view over the midwest
</li>
<li>
<% print_screen("meso"); %>
<% void print_download(void) { %>
<h2>Stable releases</h2>
<p class="note">
- While AWeather won't be considered stable until version 1.0,<br />
+ While AWeather won't be considered stable until version 1.0,
these are as close to stable as you can get until then
</p>
<ul>
<dd>Emerge <span class="code">sci-geosciences/aweather</span> from the sunrise overlay</dd>
<dt>Debian</dt>
- <dd>Packaging in progress, check back soon</dd>
+ <dd><a href="debian/<%= VERSION_DEBIAN %>/">.deb files</a>, further packaging in progress</dd>
</dl></li>
<li class="windows"><dl class="inline">
<dt>Windows</dt>
- <dd><a href="files/aweather-<%= VERSION_WIN32 %>-gtk.exe">aweather-<%= VERSION_WIN32 %>-gtk.exe</a></dd>
+ <dd><a href="files/aweather-<%= VERSION_WIN32 %>-gtk.exe">aweather-<%= VERSION_WIN32 %>-gtk.exe</a>
+ (Use this if you know what you're doing)</dd>
<dt>Without GTK</dt>
- <dd><a href="files/aweather-<%= VERSION_WIN32 %>.exe">aweather-<%= VERSION_WIN32 %>.exe</a>
- (Use this if you know what you're doing)</dd>
+ <dd><a href="files/aweather-<%= VERSION_WIN32 %>.exe">aweather-<%= VERSION_WIN32 %>.exe</a></dd>
</dl></li>
<li class="macos" style="padding-top: .8em; padding-bottom: .8em"><dl class="inline">
<dt>Mac OS X</dt>
- <dd>Coming soon (hopefully)</dd>
+ <dd>Coming soon (Mac OS developer? <a href="/code/issues/1">Help out</a>)</dd>
</dl></li>
</ul>
<h2>Development code</h2>
<p class="note">
- Development code is available from Git, and gitweb
- (<a href="/git/?p=proj/aweather">AWeather</a>,
- <a href="/git/?p=proj/grits">Grits</a>,
- <a href="/git/?p=~spenceal/rsl">RSL</a>)
+ Development code is available from Git
+ (and gitweb:
+ <a href="<%= GW_AWEATHER %>">AWeather</a>,
+ <a href="<%= GW_GRITS %>">Grits</a>,
+ <a href="<%= GW_RSL %>">RSL</a>)
</p>
<div style="margin-left: 30px;">
- <div class="code">git clone git://lug.rose-hulman.edu/proj/aweather</div>
- <div class="code">git clone git://lug.rose-hulman.edu/proj/grits</div>
- <div class="code">git clone git://lug.rose-hulman.edu/~spenceal/rsl</div>
+ <div class="code">git clone <%= GIT_AWEATHER %></div>
+ <div class="code">git clone <%= GIT_GRITS %></div>
+ <div class="code">git clone <%= GIT_RSL %></div>
</div>
<% } %>
<!-- Open source mumbo jumbo.. -->
<p class="note" style="clear: both;">
- The AWeather <a href="/code/projects/aweather/wiki">development wiki</a>
+ The AWeather <a href="<%= WIKI_INDEX %>">development wiki</a>
is the main resource for development material.
</p>
<h2>Bug report and feature requests</h2>
<div style="margin-left: 30px;">
- <p><a href="/code/projects/aweather/issues">List of current issues</a></p>
- <p><a href="/code/projects/aweather/issues/new">Add a new issue</a></p>
+ <p><a href="<%= BUG_LIST %>">List of current issues</a></p>
+ <p><a href="<%= BUG_NEW %>">Add a new issue</a></p>
</div>
<h2>How to contribute?</h2>
<li>Provides some other generic functionality, such as data access</li>
<li>Also provides the plugins API used by AWeather</li>
</ul></li>
- <li>AWeather itself is a front-end for grits along with a
+ <li>AWeather itself is a front-end for Grits along with a
bundle of weather related plugins</li>
</ul>
<h2>Building AWeather</h2>
- <p class="note">See the <a href="code/projects/aweather/wiki/Install">install</a>
+ <p class="note">See the <a href="<%= WIKI_INSTALL %>">install</a>
wiki page for more details</p>
<ul>
<li>AWeather has direct dependencies on Grits, RSL, among other things</li>
- <li>Currently building and running AWeather will require the
+ <li>Currently building and running AWeather requires the
exact same version of Grits to be installed<br />
(This may change in the near future as the software stabilizes)</li>
</ul>
<% } %>
<% void print_grits(void) { %>
- <p>Grits is a Virtual Globe library developed along side AWeather, but
- can be used by other programs as well.</p>
- <p>It is differentiated from other Virtual Globes such as Google Earth,
- NASA World Wind, and KDE Marble in that it is developed as a library
- that is used by other programs, such as AWeather, rather than
- providing a user interface that is used directly.</p>
- <hr />
+ <p>
+ Grits is a Virtual Globe library developed along side AWeather,
+ but desigend to be usable by other program as well.
+
+ It is differentiated from other Virtual Globes such as Google
+ Earth, NASA World Wind, and KDE Marble in that it is developed
+ primairily as a library that is used by other programs, such as
+ AWeather, rather than providing it's own user interface.
+ </p>
+
<ul class="gallery">
<li>
<% print_screen("grits"); %>
<% void print_rsl(void) { %>
<h2>Radar Software Library</h2>
AWeather has at times needed a custom version of the
- <a href="http://trmm-fc.gsfc.nasa.gov/trmm_gv/software/rsl/">TRMM Radar Software Library</a>
+ <a href="<%= RSL_WEB %>">TRMM Radar Software Library</a>
for accessing Level-II radar files. However, most of the changes have
since been incorporated into RSL Version 1.41, which can also be used
with AWeather. Some remaining changes exist though and are mostly
- related to code organization and fixing compiler warnings.
+ related to code organization and compiler warnings.
<h2>Download</h2>
<div class="col">
<h3>NASA/TRMM version</h3>
<ul>
- <li><a href="http://trmm-fc.gsfc.nasa.gov/trmm_gv/software/rsl/">TRMM RSL Website</a></li>
- <li><a href="ftp://trmm-fc.gsfc.nasa.gov/software/rsl-v1.41.tar.gz">rsl-v1.41.tar.gz</a></li>
+ <li><a href="<%= RSL_WEB %>">TRMM RSL Website</a></li>
+ <li><a href="<%= RSL_FTP %>">rsl-v1.41.tar.gz</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="col">
<h3>AWeather's version</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="files/rsl-1.40.tar.gz">rsl-1.40.tar.gz</a></li>
- <li><a href="/git/?p=~spenceal/rsl">Gitweb</a></li>
- <li><div class="code">git clone git://lug.rose-hulman.edu/~spenceal/rsl</div></li>
+ <li><a href="<%= GW_RSL %>">Gitweb</a></li>
+ <li><div class="code">git clone <%= GIT_RSL %></div></li>
</ul>
</div>
<% } %>
<h1>Contact</h1>
<p class="note">Questions? Comments? Trouble compiling AWeather?</p>
<dl class="inline small">
+ <dt>Bugs</dt> <dd><a href="<%= BUG_LIST %>">Issue Tracker</a> (sign in to add a new issue)</dd>
<dt>Email</dt><dd><a href="mailto:andy753421@gmail.com">Andy Spencer</a></dd>
<dt>IRC</dt> <dd>#rhlug@irc.freenode.net</dd>
</dl>
<% /* Special Pages */ %>
<% void print_index(void) { %>
<p class="intro">
- AWeather is a free advanced weather data viewer designed for weather enthusiasts.
- AWeather is not a simple weather widget/dockapp that displays a pre-computed forecast.
+ AWeather is a free real-time weather data viewer designed for weather enthusiasts.
+ AWeather is not a weather widget/dockapp that displays a pre-computed forecast.
It is designed to be an easy to use program that integrates a
- variety of weather data in simple unified interface;
+ variety of meteorological data in simple unified interface;
see the <a href="about">about</a> page for more details.
</p>
<hr />
<% } %>
<% void print_notfound(void) { %>
- <h1>404 - Not found</h1>
+ <h1>Error 404 - Page Not found!</h1>
+ <br />
+ <p>This page does not exist!
+ <p>If Andy screwed up, feel free to <a href="contact">tell him</a>,
+ otherwise, go away</p>
<% } %>
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