Thanks for the suggestion. I ran tests of gxyat vs printim and found that gxyat outputs roughly 4 images per second, and printim outputs roughly 20 images per second (when set to GIF mode, which about 65% faster than PNG at the expense of a roughly 15% larger file size). I will keep using printim for the forseeable future, since output speed is paramount to my site's operation. I do have another question, though, which I will ask in a separate message.<br>
<br>Joey<br><a href="http://www.instantweathermaps.com">http://www.instantweathermaps.com</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Arlindo da Silva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Joey Woodson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:instantweathermaps@gmail.com" target="_blank">instantweathermaps@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Introducing InstantWeatherMaps.com, a new weather model website. The
site has a lag (from when the raw data appears on the NOMADS server) of
10-30 seconds, compared to around 90 seconds for the closest other free
site (the new beta NCEP site). I offer over 150 variables, including
Kuchera-method snowfall (otherwise only found on Earl Barker's site,
which has a lag of around 30-90 minutes). Nearly a half-million GFS
model maps are on my server at any given time. I would appreciate any
suggestions as to future enhancements I could make to my site.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Consider using anti-aliasing fonts and lines, e.g.,</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://portal.nccs.nasa.gov/cgi-yotc/fp_wx.cgi" target="_blank">http://portal.nccs.nasa.gov/cgi-yotc/fp_wx.cgi</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>This is obtained by replacing printim with gxyat. Make sure to read the documentation for a trick to reduce the size of the image files (pipe to pngquant) , something that would be important for you with 1/2 million plots. Notice that you will need the opengrads bundle for this,</div>
<div><br></div><div> <a href="http://opengrads.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_the_OpenGrADS_Bundle" target="_blank">http://opengrads.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_the_OpenGrADS_Bundle</a></div><div><br></div>
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<div><br></div><div>ga-> gxyat</div><div><br></div><div>for a manual page.</div><div><br></div></div> Arlindo<br><font color="#888888">-- <br>Arlindo da Silva<br><a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a><br>
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