NAWIPS/GEMPAK
Status Report: March 2012
Michael James
Strategic Focus Areas
Work on NAWIPS/GEMPAK supports the following Unidata funding proposal focus areas:
- Broadening participation and expanding community services
Though NAWIPS will go legacy, GEMPAK is planned to be bundled with AWIPS II as a "local application". So while there is no participation broadening or expansion of community services being accomplished by any work on NAWIPS/GEMPAK, both participation and community services will benefit from the inclusion of GEMPAK functionality with AWIPS II. Additionally, a move to community-supported development (via Github) for NAWIPS/GEMPAK is planned. - Advancing data services
See above. - Developing and deploying useful tools
See above. - Enhancing user support services
Preparing NAWIPS/GEMPAK to go legacy. - Promoting diversity by expanding opportunities
Unsure.
Activities Since the Last Status Report
No major updates to NAWIPS/GEMPAK since the 6.4.0 release in October 2011.
Minor updates to the package have included: 1) increased grid size limit for nex2gini composites; 2) increased maximum number of records for bound file creation program SHPCV; 3) corrections to the NIDS selection dialog in NMAP2.
Major data tables have been provided as individual downloads from the Unidata website.
OpenMotif 2.3.3 tarball with edits specific to OS X is provided for download from the Unidata website.
Ongoing and Planned Activities
Github
Move NAWIPS/GEMPAK to community-supported development on Github.com.
Attending UberConf 2012 Java conference Git Bootcamp (June 2012).