We already had one Web version of a SPOT Parser, we now have one embedded in the Navigation Console.
It allows the manipulation of the SPOT bulletins even if you are far from the Internet...
It also comes with a possibility to compose your own SPOT request.
At sea, you would compose your request (possibly with the data from the GPS), paste it into your Airmail client to send it through SailMail.
Once the response is in your inbox, you paste it in the utility featured above, and you have a graphical rendering of the SPOT data.
Enjoy!
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Spot GRIB Request
saildocs provides support for the Spot GRIB requests. Spot requests returns forecasts for a given location. Let's say you just dropped the hook, and you want to know what your night is going to look like...
If you send an email to query@saildocs.com, with a body like this:
The cool thing is that this content can be parsed, using basic regular expressions.
If you drop the content of the request's response in the box below, you will have a chance to render it visually.
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If you send an email to query@saildocs.com, with a body like this:
send spot:37.5N,122.5W|5,3|PRMSL,WIND,RAIN, you will receive a response like that one:
Data extracted from file gfs130704-12z.grb dated 2013/07/04 16:52:56
request code: spot:37.5N,122.5W|5,3|PRMSL,WIND,RAIN
Forecast for 37°30N 122°30W (see notes below)
Date Time PRESS WIND DIR RAIN
utc hPa kts deg mm/h
----------- ------ ----- --- ----
07-05 00:00 1005.7 9.8 288 0.0
07-05 03:00 1005.7 11.5 297 0.0
07-05 06:00 1006.8 12.9 302 0.0
07-05 09:00 1006.7 13.0 303 0.0
07-05 12:00 1006.7 12.6 303 0.0
07-05 15:00 1007.0 11.7 299 0.0
07-05 18:00 1007.7 10.3 280 0.0
07-05 21:00 1007.2 11.4 270 0.0
... etc
This is "human readable", as they call it, but not that catchy, hey?
The cool thing is that this content can be parsed, using basic regular expressions.
If you drop the content of the request's response in the box below, you will have a chance to render it visually.
See in full
The browser you use must support HTML5 for that.
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