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Europe! We've got European weather as of today! I've included a variety of forecasts from the German Meteorological Service. This includes the North Sea, Baltic, Mediterranean and Atlantic. Note that the UK Met Office also covers part of this area.

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Today's additions to the Interactive Weather Map: Added feeds for SE Asia as well as from Fiji and Tahiti in the South Pacific. I'm also working on expanding the Australian Met Office coverage, as they generate weather for far more than just Australia.

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The latest addition to the Interactive Weather Map (http://www.geoffschultz.org/weather_map.php) is a tremendous expansion of weather charts from the Australian Met Bureau covering Pacific and Indian Ocean. The types of information available has also been reorganized to make it more clear what areas are covered (US only and World Wide).

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I've almost completed a major update to http://www.geoffschultz.org/weather_map.php with the addition of weather graphics from http://WeatherOnline.co.uk. They provide worldwide information based upon the GFS model. My website now provides almost complete world wide coverage for marine related weather.

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Really Excellent work Geoff! Thanks!

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I've just completed a major rewrite of my Interactive Forecast Map at http://www.geoffschultz.org/weather_map.php. The web site can now display many of the charts, radar images, satellite photos, etc within a GoogleMaps pop-up window. You can still display the information in separate browser tabs if you want to be able to quickly compare charts. I think that most people will really like this new interface.

I've also highlighted the selected chart as you move the cursor over it. This is quite helpful when there are multiple charts in 1 area and it's not easy to determine which chart will be selected.

As this was a major rewrite and your browser is now doing a lot more work, there's a great chance that things will break depending upon the browser that you use, the version of the browser and which operating system you're using. I've checked it out on the majority of browsers on a Windows 7 system and an iPad, but there are lots of other combinations that I haven't checked. As a result I'd really like to get feedback from people as to how they like it and if they have problems.

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Geoff, this is way, WAY cool. A few months ago I tried to make a pop-up map something like this for some environmental data and gave up in frustration. Your map is spectacular. The "streamline" wind data is great, better than anything I've ever found online.

(I did find that I can't see the tide window because it pops up BEHIND the Google map. (IE8 running on Windows XP) The Google map didn't show at all with Firefox on XP.)
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Rick,

Thanks for the comment. I'm actually working the tide display right now because it does the same thing on an iPad. Royal pia to fix... Anyhow, are you saying that you don't see any map at all on Firefox on XP? Do you know what version of FF you're running?

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I just finished modifying the Tide display so that it uses the same mechanism as the other pop-ups. Please let me know is that works better.
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Oops. It was FF Ver. 4.0, and with that version I didn't see the map at all. I only use FF to get into a Bizhub print server at work (for some reason IE doesn't work) so I didn't realize I had such an old version. I updated it to 8.0 and the map is now visible and the pop up is on top on your site,

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the pop up is on top but it only gives me tides for Narragansett Pier, Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, either with FF or IE.
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Rick Simonds wrote:the pop up is on top but it only gives me tides for Narragansett Pier, Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, either with FF or IE.
Silly me for hardcoding a lat/log while worked on a proof of concept. Tides now work everywhere...

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