VWP display?

[Codex98]

I'm not sure if anyone else has requested this, but is it possible to add a VWP / VAD display in the future like on GRLevel3?

[dpaulat]

The VWP product (NVW) is currently "not supported": https://supercell-wx.readthedocs.io/en/stable/features/nexrad-l3.html

However, the product should largely be able to be parsed as-is, maybe with some product-specific modifications. The NVW product is also available on AWS, so the existing radar product manager can be leveraged to retrieve the product. The largest effort will be rendering a dedicated view for the product.

A non-comprehensive list with options for drawing the chart:

• Qt Charts incompatible license (GPL)
• ImPlot (MIT)
• Matplot++ (MIT)
• SHARPlib
• Custom SVG generation
• Custom OpenGL implementation (ImGui for text?)
• Import Python library for drawing (could have other benefits, i.e., soundings)
• Port Python library (preferable to importing for performance)

Not all of the above options may be able to support what is required for rendering either custom vector or rotated rasterized wind barbs on a chart, and may require modification.