The msgfilter has been revised to support sending messages that can be easily viewed from a smartphone. In short, the msgfilter creates a small web page and sends the link to it in an SMS message.
Nbsp contains two new (Tcl) scripts, nbspgisradmap and nbspgissatmap, that use the NbspGismap library that make it very easy to cerate radar and sat maps using the noaaport data.
The 1st release of the 2.2 version of Nbsp is available.
On the presentation side, the radar and satellite images, as well as the loops, can now be generated dynamically from the web interface.
Regarding the package, Expect is no longer required so it is not a
pre-requisite (it was needed for tclgrads which is used in the gribfilter).
In terms of peformance, the gempak filter now opens a permanent separate connection to each gempak decoder and the performance is so improved in SMP machines) that the filter can be added to the default configuration without any problem.
The biggest new addition is the clusterfilter for running any of the filters in any of a set of nodes, as if they were local.
The latest version of Nbsp has an improved gpfilter (gempak filter), such that it can be enabled together with the other default filters without a problem on multicore machines. In addition, provided that Gempak is installed, the web server creates and displays all radar and satellite images as well as loops, dynamically on demand.
Nbsp-Lite is a version of Nbsp intended to run easily from a laptop.
It consists of a few configuration files that override the default
configuration as follows:
Nbsp and Npemwin have been updated. The latest packages, source and docs are available from the downloads section.
I have updated the nbsp virtual appliance for Virtual Box. There are two versions. Both are configured to connect to the iNoaaport servers. Apart from that the standard version nbspVA is configured as the stand-alone Nbsp package.
The second version, nbsp2ldmVA, comes with Ldm configured, and with only the ldmfilter enabled (all the others except the inventory are disabled). Both have the Gempak package installed and configured.
The images and README files can downloaded by anonymous ftp from
in the directory
The README’s have the information needed to start the machines, in particular the login credentials, and how the installed packages nbsp, npemwin, gempak, ldm are configured.
Binary packages (debian deb, centos rpm and freebsd tbz) for the latest version of Gempak are available in the download (optional-packages) section.
A standalone version of the Nbsp GIS Library has been set up as a separate project in Bitbucket. The library and applications can be used outside Nbsp and even outside Noaaport applications, so that anybody that may be can join to develop it further.
The final packages of Nbsp-2.1.r1 are ready. The major feature in this version is the Nbsp GIS library and associated utilities for converting the radar and satellite files to shapefiles.