IBISEYE: Help and Synopsis Updates
Charlie Szymanski
Hello all,
We’ve spent the past week making some upgrades to the beta IBISEYE site
(located at: http://ibis.htcreative.com/onelegged/
).
We’ve added more charting information to our “Synopsis” tab.
To see these, you may have to clear out your browser’s cache (hold down
shift and click refresh in your browser). The additions include three new
charts in addition to the Risk charts (you will need the Flash Player 9
installed to see these). The charts are for Wind Speed, Pressure, and Wind
Fields all over the life of the storm. The bars on the chart are color-coded
based on the storm’s category, and should provide a good picture of how
the storm formed. It’s pretty interesting to look at historical storms
and see how they built in strength and then died out.
We’ve also added a help section (finally). We’ve tried to go
through the site piece by piece and write up what kind of functionality there
is and how it works. Clicking on ‘help’ will show you a list of
topics on the left and the main document on the right.
We are, as usual, interested in any feedback you may have, especially with the
help section. If you feel that something important is missing or that some of the
help isn’t clear, let us know and we’ll try to remedy it. Same goes
for the charts – any ideas or suggestions are welcome.
CS
RadioEngineer
Just a heads up, the beta link is broken.
With that said .... this is one awesome website! It has replaced
Google as my home page in FireFox and earned a top position in IE's
home page (iGoogle) that I use. This site has great potential. Once
the word (or iGoogle gadget) gets out .... hold on! That is how I
found the site.
Trey Cooper
On Jul 16, 1:58 pm, "Charlie Szymanski"
> goes for the charts - any ideas or suggestions are welcome.
>
> CS
Mo
Thanks for the heads up ... fixed.
And thanks for the kind words. Spread the word!
Cheers,
Mo
Beverly K. Mott
The new information in the Synopsis page is fantastic. I particularly like the color variations so that I can look at pressure and see how it corresponds to storm strength without clicking back to windspeed to compare day by day. The color variations are enough that I can tell category at a glance. very nice.
Minor Problems:
1. When using the Synopsis page for Hurricane Charley, Desoto county is not listed as one of the counties you can check for information. Ah, never mind, I checked Donna and got the same thing. The data for Desoto must not be available.
2. Scrolling with the mouse wheel to zoom in and out. I mentioned this last time and figured I would get used to it. I can't get used to it. The ratio is 1/5. I click forward one mouse notch, the screen zooms in 5 times rather than the corresponding 1. Same on zoom out. Not sure if this can be fixed, but is annoying as you try to move around the map and look closer and back up. I know you can click the zoom/in out over on the left of the screen, but wheel to zoom is second nature and more efficient than clicking the zoom bar.
That's it for problems, it looks wonderful! I briefly looked over the help area and like it so far. I'll do a more thorough look-see later on.
Suggestions: (don't you love these?) Not! :-)
When a hurricane is at sea, pinpointed by coordinates. Is there a way to have a search feature by coordinate? For example, when I see a Cat 1 Hurr. passing through a certain area near cuba, I would like to be able to search for all storms that have passed within 50 miles of that coordinate, to compare historical movement of other storms based on its current location, to see if there are trends at times and where the storm is likely to head if following the trend.
Great work guys, thanks for a fantastic site!
Bev