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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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                                          stitch Meteorologist | Premium last edited by

                                          Hi @marekd ,

                                          could you check the "Freezing Level" line/trace in the cross-section display for the correct plotted height?

                                          I have attached a screen shot (below) showing the EC forecast freezing height at Cootamundra (see picker) as 3000ft.
                                          The cross-section freezing height line is up near the 2000m/6000ft level at the same point. The height of the topography is ~420m.

                                          It doesn't look right????

                                          ![alt text](15aebdf3-524e-4e7a-9b0e-a8f4e34cc11a-image.png

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                                            leerunge | Premium last edited by

                                            Hi, First off thanks so much for the hard work on Windy, it's my favorite weather app/site and I'm always recommending it to friends!

                                            Would it be possible to import .kml or even better google maps routes (or something similar) for long distance road trips to get the wx along the route? The point by point works but it would be far easier to just import based off a currently planned route from a .gpx or .kml.

                                            Thanks!

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