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Yay! I got an up-to-date cell phone for xmas, now discovering the WAP side of things. Are there any wx specific sites forum members access via WAP? I had a good look on the weather service site to see what they have.. only looks like txt alerts.

I couldn't get the Boltecs to show up on the phone, I can see the strikestar logo and the text but no strike map. Was there 'static' .gifs or .pngs of the strikemaps?

Cheers,

G

do you mean specific WAP or just general web pages?
I do have a wap page
http://www.weather-display.com/windy/gb/wap/index.wml
and Ricky has a wap specific page now too

My old phone I could visit wap (and wap only) for 50C a pop
but my new phone handles normal web pages, no wap, but at 2$ a pop instead now!

I'm with Telecom, and use their WAP service, but it's not amazing... On the WAP www, I haven't been able to find many WAP weather sites. MS runs ok, but not amazing. I'd like to find out if there are any also. Would be great for chasing!

My site while not specifically wap does degrade to display passably on a Apache PDA Phone (MS CE type) it wont work though with the smaoll screen WAPS yet. I will be creating a wap text type interface at some stage as part of my changes

I've found Ricky's Boltek static image page http://www.portunus.net.nz/weather/boltek600.png which shows ok on the phone

Does anyone have a phone capable of running Spark.clx ? (the cellphone java realtime lightning app)
have a look on http://www.astrogenic.com and let me know...
If someone does I can try and get it working for the Akl detector

I've got WAP access to current, today's and yesterdays conditions, the same as you see on my site at http://weather.northcott.co.nz/wap/
Updated every 10 mins.

ricky wrote:Does anyone have a phone capable of running Spark.clx ? (the cellphone java realtime lightning app)

I have this running for my detector and it works OK on my Motorola V360v. The trickiest part was creating the mapstrip.png file using Photoshop because the Auto-generate map strip only works for vector maps.

After downloading and installing the Java MIDlet using the instructions at http://www.astrogenic.com/spark.html, ADD an entry in LINKS to "http://www.skywatcher.net.nz/spk/".

Steven Graham wrote:

ricky wrote:Does anyone have a phone capable of running Spark.clx ? (the cellphone java realtime lightning app)

I have this running for my detector and it works OK on my Motorola V360v. The trickiest part was creating the mapstrip.png file using Photoshop because the Auto-generate map strip only works for vector maps.

After downloading and installing the Java MIDlet using the instructions at http://www.astrogenic.com/spark.html, ADD an entry in LINKS to "http://www.skywatcher.net.nz/spk/".

I've got it running on my Nokia 6085 - looks fantastic!

Hey that's great Graeme, now I'm going to have to get it going for the Akl detector!
yes generating that map was the first obstacle.. i guessed it wasn't working because of the lack of a vector map but didn't look any further into it..

Hang on... we didn't have any lightning yesterday!

ricky wrote:yes generating that map was the first obstacle.. i guessed it wasn't working because of the lack of a vector map but didn't look any further into it..

What format do you need the vector data in? If the software can use standard ESRI shape files or one of the more common formats I can do an extract from the NZ Open GPS maps project.

Cheers,

G