During the recent severe winter WX in the midwest / Ohio River Valley it was necessary to run a weather net to gather data to turn over to the emergency management / National weather service. I used WRL as a test and the mapping feature was great for what I needed. I had to overlay the snow measurements to the plotted points on the map but if there were a feature where it would overlay the entered amount (snowfall in inches or rainfall in inches for example) I can see that as a feature no one else has and would be something that is used quite a bit in severe WX situations. I will leave the snowfall totals map I created from your QSO map for an example.
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This is a GREAT idea @KB9HUO . I’ll bring this up to the team. I would say we could just provide fields that are customizable that users can enter whatever data they would like to add, opening this up to a WIDE range of uses!! GREAT call out here!
Thanks & 73
Brad K4AZE
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Matt, can you explain (in 8 year old terminology) how you created that map?
I can see that being useful here in AZ for tracking Wildfires, or even flood levels during Monsoon season.
Thanks!
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Great idea! For many different options not just snow cool! @KB9HUO
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I just saved the map view of the mapped locations of the stations that checked into the WX net and used the photo editor on my MacBook to add the text to the locations on the map. A couple of station locations were incorrect probably due to stale data on QRZ so I had to shift those numbers to the correct location
a few of us were working WFD using WRL for the first time and it just clicked that we could use it for this purpose as well so we just set up a basic logbook for just this purpose and ran with it.
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