wap vs app wind readings different

jgda · Joined: 19 Jul 1999 Posts: 131

I continue to use wap text data on my phone. I like the simple, easy to get, easy to read text and the fact that I can get pressure reports (pdx to dalles etc.), which I have yet to be able to figure out how to get on the new app. In fact, I was told by iwindsurf last year that that was only available in classic or wap. The wap site is so much better and I can attest I am not a luddite. I know how to program computers. Bottom line, it is all about usability. I do use the newer website when I am home for maps etc., but when out in the gorge I use wap. I hope this does not go away. I think a lot more people would use wap if they knew about it...indeed it is, by now, not advertised.

PS...sorry I did not save the screen shots, maybe next time.

windfind · Joined: 18 Mar 1997 Posts: 1901

bericw · Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 90

Mike Godsey:

As I have previously noted, thank you for the service iwindsurf provides.

With respect to the original thread topic and your initial response, thank you very much for implying that the WAP will keep going for as long as possible. I have no delusion that my opinion does or should have any significance to anyone else, and I don't care, but FYI, the WAP provides me with the gorge windspeeds (except for the sites that are unfortunately no longer programmed into the WAP; I understand that this is a dead issue, and I use the app to fill in those missing sites), daily histories, and pressure gradients and temperatures much better in function, format, and accessability than the app or web sites. Whatever, thanks again for it all.

In further useless trivia, the WAP does often lag the app by a few moments regardless of frantic refreshing, and at coincident data points, appears to round down instead of up, so there is often a unit of one difference. Again, whatever. Seeing 29 ramp up (!) to 30 when driving, so much better I'd better get the driver to go faster, but when 33 plummets to 32, time to rage quit. Hahah!!

Have a great day!

Beric

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

Larry.Lampshade · Joined: 10 Apr 2000 Posts: 23

The WAP site is really helpful at many of the sites that do not have a very good cell connection (especially out East) for it does not use nearly the amount of data that the other sites use.

Larry.Lampshade · Joined: 10 Apr 2000 Posts: 23

... so please, please, please by the grace of God, keep it running!

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

Keep wap running even if it DOESN'T bring in as much ad revenue. My cell phone connects and works far better out east than it does at home, and I love wap's simplicity, efficiency, speed, and freedom from ads. Just like in the rest of my world, I value substance and facts over bling all day, every day.

ldhr · Joined: 10 Apr 2000 Posts: 121

Bunch of old white guys resisting change and new tech......
I resemble that remark!

windfind · Joined: 18 Mar 1997 Posts: 1901

The issue is not Weatherflow stopping supporting WAP. Since right now it does not require any IT work it will continue until evolving internet protocols do not support it.

Sort of like buggy whips. The manufactures could have kept on making them but at a certain point there was no place or need for them on cars.

Likewise, as Musk's SpaceX Starlink matures and gets enough of the planned 40,000 micro internet satellites in orbit the corpse that is now WAP will be as forgotten as our once "revolutionary" Genius Pager

This is a drag for me personally since I did the forecasts for the early launches of Googles Project Loon which is a Starlink competitor.

But Loon seems turned out to be better for fast emergency internet for a region than a global solution. https://loon.com Watch the video... its way cool.

Mike Godsey
iwindsurf.com/ikitesurf.com
Weatheflow.com

windward1 · Joined: 18 Jun 2000 Posts: 1400

Hi Mike,

So is Loon used continually or only launches made in emergency, like ahead of a typhoon or hurricane?

Regards,

W1