Add climavision radar sites

[jshg46]

If it is possible, I would like to request the addition of Climavision patch radar sites used by the NWS. We have one of these radars in our county seat and haven't found a way to view the data yet.

[dpaulat]

I reached out to Climavision last June and got this response:

Thanks for reaching out to Climavision. At this time, our current suite of products and services is specifically developed for government or business use only.

Unless they change their offering, I won't be able to offer free access to their suite. If they happen to follow an open standard, similar to experimental sites like MZZU or others, I could offer a way to plug their site in, assuming you have independent access to their data.

If Climavision has opened their offering to non-commercial use, I'd love to hear about it.

[jshg46]

I Emailed them about it a few weeks back, I think it is very commercial offering. They did say keep an eye out for Apps in the future. I would love to see someone with these sites.

[dpaulat]

I will periodically check back into their offering. Additionally, if a service such as AllisonHouse is able to sign a redistribution agreement, that could also enable an easier path toward integrating their data.

[jshg46]

Ill keep an eye out as well. Thanks

[gilp54]

As noted, Climavision is a subscription service. However, some our Furuno X-band radars are available to people who have access to Allision House. Is there a way to add a customradar.gis file to Supercell Wx? I would be happy to provide the .gis file.

[dpaulat]

That would likely help, but there a couple caveats:

• Is it in the name NOAA level 2 or level 3 format? If not, I would need to add support for an additional types (and for custom AllisonHouse products as well)
• I need to add support for ONDAS providers (see Support Additional NEXRAD Providers #17)

[gilp54]

Our radars have converters for NEXRAD Level 2, NetCDF, HDF-5 formats.

[dpaulat]

In that event, most of the effort would be supporting the data feed format. I presume it would be ONDAS: https://allisonhouse.com/Documents/ondas.txt