Rain radar plus forecast for The Netherlands

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Hi,

I just found some sites where they have animations from rain-radar plus forecast! for The Netherlands. Maybe you can find some more data you want. Check:

http://www.buienradar.nl/frame.php?r=va … orspelling

and

http://www.weathernews.nl/radar/

They have more detail than the german site www.wetteronline.de, where you can also find rain radar fior The Netherlands. You can either link these into WW map viewer or make separate tools.

The locations of the maps are at:

http://images.buienradar.nl/data/images … elling.gif

http://www.weathernews.nl/data/rad.gif

http://www.weathernews.nl/data/radlgt.gif (includes lightning! (but shows less prognosis than the former))

But you’ll have to put some topographic map underneath. Check the source-code of the above urls to find them.

Regards,

Arjan

The Weathernews radar is now on my screen as separate gadget with the following code:

Weathernews Regenradar
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Very nice sites. And you have some html talent I see. Nice! :icon_smile:

Personally I like the http://www.buienradar.nl[/url] image better, it shows the location of cities. hmmm have you thought of combining them? if they are the same size… Yup, they are, close enough rather!! Change your table’s background to [url=http://images.buienradar.nl/kaart.gif]http://images.buienradar.nl/kaart.gif and you can have the best of both worlds. :iconbiggrin:

With IE I get the IE banner that I have to respond to to run the resizing. If you add a Mark of the Web line to the top it eliminates the prompt. You can even use the one I had in my little page. If you use a different browser or enable the “Allow active content to run in files on my computer” option in IE the prompt is eliminated also but the IE change isn’t highly recommended.

BTW the new release of WW supports html maps. You could add your webpage to WW’s maps and run it thru WW. :wink:

PS Have you tried these two links of yours?

http://www.weathernews.nl/data/rad.gif

http://www.weathernews.nl/data/radlgt.gif

They aren’t radar when I click on them.

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Very nice sites. And you have some html talent I see. Nice! icon_smile

Thanks

Personally I like the http://www.buienradar.nl image better, it shows the
location of cities. hmmm have you thought of combining them?

More than that: I DID combine them, but somehow the background map from Weathernews prefers to appear on top of the cities. As a result the cities don’t show. The size of the maps is slightly different, because one shows the time on the map, the other above it. Their base maps are the same, so as a result one map is taller than the other.

With IE I get the IE banner that I have to respond to to run the resizing.
If you add a Mark of the Web line to the top it eliminates the prompt.
You can even use the one I had in my little page. If you use a different
browser or enable the “Allow active content to run in files on my
computer” option in IE the prompt is eliminated also but the IE change
isn’t highly recommended.

Okay, we have to realize here that my html is poor, despite your compliment earlier. Now you’re talking russian for me. Can you suggest a modified code to replace the one I gave? I use FireFox. My neighbour, whom I sent the script, complained that he got problems with it either.

BTW the new release of Weather Watcher supports html maps. You
could add your webpage to Weather Watcher’s maps and run it thru
Weather Watcher. Wink

But then I will get all the rubbish and commercials on those pages from Weathernews and Regenradar. The scripts were written with the intention to keep my desktop as tidy as possible.

Regards,

Arjan

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ps. The cities are no part of the map. They are just glued to the map with:

      <map name="positiesmap">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="365,161,376,171" alt="Groningen NL" title="Groningen NL">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="322,168,333,178" alt="Leeuwarden NL" title="Leeuwarden NL">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="367,182,378,192" alt="Assen NL" title="Assen NL">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="346,230,357,240" alt="Zwolle NL" title="Zwolle NL">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="339,282,350,292" alt="Arnhem NL" title="Arnhem NL">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="293,275,304,285" alt="Utrecht NL" title="Utrecht NL">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="279,251,290,261" alt="Amsterdam NL" title="Amsterdam NL">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="268,228,279,238" alt="Alkmaar NL" title="Alkmaar NL">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="257,295,268,305" alt="Rotterdam NL" title="Rotterdam NL">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="308,312,319,322" alt="Den Bosch NL" title="Den Bosch NL">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="320,336,331,346" alt="Eindhoven NL" title="Eindhoven NL">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="338,390,349,400" alt="Maastricht NL" title="Maastricht NL">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="259,362,270,372" alt="Antwerpen BE" title="Antwerpen BE">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="255,403,266,413" alt="Brussel BE" title="Brussel BE">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="188,368,199,378" alt="Brugge BE" title="Brugge BE">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="331,412,342,422" alt="Luik BE" title="Luik BE">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="268,437,279,447" alt="Charleroi BE" title="Charleroi BE">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="493,159,504,169" alt="Bremen DLD" title="Bremen DLD">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="459,239,470,249" alt="Osnabr?k DLD" title="Osnabr?k DLD">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="409,324,420,334" alt="Essen DLD" title="Essen DLD">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="454,421,465,431" alt="Koblenz DLD" title="Koblenz DLD">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="459,239,470,249" alt="Bremen DLD" title="Arnhem DLD">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="182,423,193,433" alt="Lille FR" title="Lille FR">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="374,501,385,511" alt="Luxemburg" title="Luxemburg">
      	<area shape="rect" coords="69,239,80,249"   alt="Norwich UK" title="Norwich UK">
      </map>
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psps. Do you mean to start with a line like:

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pspsps.

Do you know of an html-command that erazes the toolbars, leaving only just map plus legend??

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Good grief!!

Well I see cities when I changed the background. This is all I changed:

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="512" height="527" background="http://images.buienradar.nl/kaart.gif"> <!http://www.weathernews.nl/radar/achtergrond.gif">
I don’t see the city names but I would think a native would be able to relate to them without the mouseovers.

I’m referring to the html page you created. Add it’s URL to WW’s maps.

Yes, but the number must equate to the length of the URL. If you want to use the Buienradar URL the number becomes 0024 and the line becomes:

<!-- saved from url=(0024)http://www.buienradar.nl -->

Change the name of your webpage from .html to .hta and see what happens. :iconbiggrin:

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Or you could use the MS metatag for doing just that.

<meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" />
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Not quite the same effect, I don’t think. Try it .hta and you’ll see what I mean. :icon_smile:

Update

I tried the meta tag and it didn’t do anything for me. The IE window looks the same.

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Wow!

Do we have an active forum!

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Interesting. None of the suggestions work.

The .hta-version does not show the background map and height/width do not match what I specified.

The meta-tag does not make any difference.

The cities do show with the http://images.buienradar.nl/kaart.gif as background, but the one from weathernews shows the rivers, which is why I prefer that one. Can you plot cities on top of the weathernews-background map? And indeed, for us it’s completely clear which city is what, so I don’t bother about that.

Regards,

Arjan

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:shock: :shock: With the renamed .hta file I changed the onLoad parms to be onLoad=window.resizeTo(545,610) and the HTML App window is perfectly sized. But you loosing the background I don’t understand at all. If it displays when the file is named .html it should display when it’s named .hta. It’s the same code!

Just to verify, this is what I have for the background line; <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="512" height="527" background="http://images.buienradar.nl/kaart.gif"> <!http://www.weathernews.nl/radar/achtergrond.gif"
Just to be safe, try it dropping the commented tag I have at the end.

That was my experience also. I don’t think IE supports all http-equiv tags like other browsers.

I can’t but someone with PhotoShop skills could. Or who has with a whole lot of time and patience. Or someone who is very clever. [size=2](I have an idea )[/size]

Oh sure. Adding them would be the relatively easy thing to do but those you don’t want. :icon_smile: But without the cities themselves it’s meaningless to do.

Well regardless of which background you use, and you should certainly use the one you prefer, the image should show in the HTML App window. It does for me so we need to figure out why it doesn’t for you.

You’re running Win XP? SP2? HTML App mshta.exe version 6.99.2900.2180?

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Hi Ed,

Woken up? :lol:

It’s XP-professional at my box allright, with SP2. How can I find out if I have HTML App mshta.exe version 6.99.2900.2180?

Neither the Weathernews nor the Regenradar scripts show background maps. Only rain… (summer’s over here, we had our annual three days of fun). Haven’t tried it at home yet.

When I tried the meta-tags, I sent the code to Firefox (maybe an old version), and that didn’t make any difference: the toolbox was still there. So if your experience with IE was similar, we can discard that option.

Regards,

Arjan

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C:\Windows\System32 RIGHT click on mshta.exe, click on Properties.

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Version is 6.0.2600.0

Sounds like less than 6.99.2900.2180

And now?

Arjan

ps. Won’t be online for some hours from now :wink:

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http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/9854/arjans2ml.jpg

http://rapidshare.de/files/23233637/Arjans.zip.html (76KB)

[size=2][code]

Weathernews Regenradar
[/code][/size]

I suspect you’re missing one of the Windows Updates Recommended patches. My version also indicates (xpsp2_sp2_rtm.040803-2158) if that’s any help.

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This works and shows the cities. Thanks.

Arjan

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You’re welcome. :icon_smile:

Do both versions work for you? ie both the hta and html versions?

Remember either, or both, can be added to WW via the Map Manager or direct edit of the MapsHistory.ww file.

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I tried the .hta and that worked. Then I didn’t bother about the html anymore.

Have a nice weekend!

Arjan

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:-s Did you do anything to your system for the hta file to work or did it work “out of the box”? You had problems with hta files previously. :-k