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#41 Postby Yellow Evan » Thu Aug 22, 2013 8:18 pm

Hurricane_Luis wrote:How do you make those Hurricane Tracking maps? Like these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:01S_1986_track.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Walte ... _track.png


To be honest, I would not worry about it right now. There are instructions to download a program that makes those maps, but it's complex.
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#42 Postby Hurricane_Luis » Fri Aug 23, 2013 5:38 am

Yellow Evan wrote:
Hurricane_Luis wrote:How do you make those Hurricane Tracking maps? Like these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:01S_1986_track.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Walte ... _track.png


To be honest, I would not worry about it right now. There are instructions to download a program that makes those maps, but it's complex.


Ok thanks.
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#43 Postby RL3AO » Fri Aug 23, 2013 6:42 am

I once used an excel sheet to plot the coordinates of the image in an image editor and plotted the dots manually. Could never figure out how to install that damn program. :lol:
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#44 Postby Meow » Fri Aug 23, 2013 7:37 am

This is the most interesting track I made:

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#45 Postby Yellow Evan » Fri Aug 23, 2013 11:14 am

RL3AO wrote:I once used an excel sheet to plot the coordinates of the image in an image editor and plotted the dots manually. Could never figure out how to install that damn program. :lol:


Meh, I've known many editors who have had that problem installing it (most never did). Don't feel alone :P
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#46 Postby Hammy » Wed Aug 28, 2013 7:58 pm

I was wondering since its so quiet and I'm so bored with nothing to track if somebody could explain to me (by PM if it shouldn't go here) how to order and access the CLASS satellite data.
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