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    • bigcontainer
      bigcontainer | Premium last edited by

      What an excellent feature, and cements the fact that Windy is thinking outside the box and pushing to progress the fine art of weather exposition..

      • The time and therefore weather should be presented along the route correct for the predicted time of arrival.
      • Maybe actual route planning for road traffic - maybe as extra chargeable, tie-in with TomTom or another route provider?
      • use a small icon of the intended user, car for car journey, plane for flight etc.

      Those are my thoughts so far, but a great feature, look forward to it arriving on mobile.

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        EaglePete last edited by

        I like the new functionality. There is one thing that I miss:

        I used to set a waypoint easily on a specific latitude/longitude in the old version. Would it be possible to display the lat/lon next to each waypoint, just like this is done for the weather picker? Of course updating realtime when a waypoint is dragged.......

        At the moment it's a bit of a guessing game to put a waypoint on the right lat/lon.

        Thank you,

        Aad.

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        • marekd
          marekd Administrator last edited by marekd

          Hey guys, we just published a new version of our route planner. Just some small improvements.


          Changelog:

          • added switch to change direction of movement (relative/absolute wind and wave directions)
          • added "reverse route" button
          • route detail remains open when waypoints are changed or any changes are happening
          • uncountable ammount of minor fixes

          Thanks for your feedback, we have been working on another version :-)

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          • justinlimbo
            justinlimbo last edited by justinlimbo

            at fcoo.dk you can find a simple version of a routing tool where you can adjust boat speed and starting time. what is missing here though is the forecast in table form or even as a graph. i'm sure windy can go one better. :-) thanks for all the helpful tools!

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            • gerritgordon
              gerritgordon last edited by

              If possible to zoom in on the "time line."
              At least to an hourly zoom
              Would be "a nice to have" feature

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                GR last edited by

                Love it, once I had a play and got used to the new features. Good stuff Windy.

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                  beemu7011 last edited by

                  Good job Windy team! Best App kml not uploaded why are problems sir?

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                    tocaseabra last edited by

                    it's in Kilometers?!!! for navigation???

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                      tocaseabra last edited by

                      Wen we try to sue te "distance and planning"tool its provided in kilometres! at sea we use nautical miles.

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                      • Gkikas LGPZ
                        Gkikas LGPZ Moderator @tocaseabra last edited by

                        @tocaseabra
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                        • afurley
                          afurley Sailor last edited by

                          I think most of this has been said but just to reiterate, from a sailing perspective there is little point having the forecast along the entire route for one moment in time as clearly, for a journey of any length, the situation will have changed substantially by the time the boat (moving at 6-7kts) has got there! So it would be really nice if 'boat mode' by default showed the predictions along the route given a specific boat speed.

                          That said, I have now got the hang of the fact that the weekdays along the top of the table do not relate to the weather beneath (this was very confusing) and I can make predictions by shifting the bar around. It's a bit cumbersome, but nonetheless worthwhile and helping me guide my friends across the Indian Ocean.

                          The last request is that the routes be save-able! (if they are already I have not seen how?). It is a pain to have to keep re-entering multiple waypoints everytime I come back to the app!

                          Thanks for everything, this is the most brilliant weather program in existance!

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                            TD737 last edited by

                            Dear Windy,

                            Nice feature; I will use it to track distance to my enroute alternates! However, can you provide me the definitions of 1) ECMWF and 2) GFS? Also how is Windy defining [cloud height] 1) medium clouds and 2) low clouds?

                            Thanks,

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                            • Gkikas LGPZ
                              Gkikas LGPZ Moderator @TD737 last edited by

                              @TD737
                              ECMWF and GFS are global weather models
                              https://community.windy.com/topic/12/what-source-of-weather-data-windy-use

                              For description of weather overlays:
                              https://community.windy.com/topic/3361/description-of-weather-overlays

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                              • diveservices
                                diveservices @marekd | Premium last edited by

                                @marekd love it love it love it

                                Joel Michello

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                                • earthmanray
                                  earthmanray last edited by

                                  U guys R awesome with cutting edge thinking ....beautifully done once the user gets past the learning curve

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                                    gniemann Pilot | Premium last edited by

                                    Toll, das Euer Bestreben ist, vielen Interessenten viel Informationen zur Verfügung zu stellen. Danke
                                    Hochachtungt für Euer Bemühen,

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                                      LMCBALLON @marekd | Premium last edited by

                                      @marekd
                                      I'm a balloonist and have a high emphasis on surface and lower elevation winds (100m, 300m, 500 m, 750m) for flight planning. Other than that as of now => great tool.

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                                        Frelle | Premium last edited by

                                        This is a super feature, thank you I'll use it for flight planning both VFR and IFR low level to 20.000 ft. For this I would need to add route, departure time ETD, True Airspeed TAS and altitude.
                                        Important extra information is a 0 degree gradient relative to MSL(!), ising and information about CBs. For routes of a duration of more than one hour, the diagram should show weather relative to time. Alternatively, use time at the midpoint of the route. I would prefer wind arrows north up, but the red/black/green coloring is excellent.
                                        Finally, a nice to have would be mean of groundspeed and arrival time - ETA.

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                                          stitch Meteorologist | Premium last edited by stitch

                                          Thankyou @marekd for the updated VFR display.

                                          I greatly appreciate the work you (and the team) are putting into this product - which makes my work a little bit easier :)

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                                          • Gkikas LGPZ
                                            Gkikas LGPZ Moderator @marekd last edited by

                                            @marekd
                                            On VFR, the gray shades are R.H., OK.
                                            What is the lower limit of the shaded area? 50% ? 90% ?
                                            The shades are every 10% ?

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