My suggestions for me personally.

VMMeteorologyAgency

A warngen option or addon. It gives people that stream with the program to highlight other areas that spark concerns. - It would also help my agency with Emergency Management as we do issue our own warnings. I would die to have this for my agency.
Other watches, such as Flash flood watches, Winterstorm watches etc. This would be more helpful!
3D scans. I know this is a big suggestion but will attract a lot of people.
Radar scan Line being editable. Like having custom or different options for a visual.

What do you guys think?

Paul

Thank you very much for this. Could you elaborate on the warngen capability? Indeed I have a few other ideas for agency license. I would like to have a 2x price agency edition to help keep the base subscription price low, hopefully not even increasing the 2018 first-gen $25/month price. This requires having workstation/agency higher licenses so that we can pack a lot of bandwidth into the base without being stingy. We're currently looking to stream at least 10x the data to client from TempoQuest private server/cloud infra than in first-gen, maybe even 20x. I thought an agency license could have multiuser fleet tracking with GPS, automatic agency config/map presets, possibly even remote control display like changing map views and content of remote display 24/7 embedded clients, or that could be a separate automation version for usage in kiosks and displays. Could the warngen tool be more than visual - like actually send alerts to an HTTP endpoint of yours or something? Let me know your wildest dreams. For the visually indicated warngen tool, yes that is possible for agency edition, but it should have more capability than just visual to justify the value. On the other points I agree.

VMMeteorologyAgency

Paul YesI can elaborate on Warngen! It’s a custom software or function inside an application such as Awips 2 CAVE that allows for warnings for you only to be displayed on the weather radar. Our team is in the works of trying to find a company that will let us have our own custom text and warnings to be issued on our server/program.

VMMeteorologyAgency

Paul Don’t worry about number 2 as I found the function later on after the suggestion has been submitted.

Paul

VMMeteorologyAgency But what does your desired implementation actually do? Is it just purely visual - basic vector polygon drawing tool for visual indication of area, or does it actually trigger a REST endpoint to your servers for custom notifications or something? If it's just for purely visual warning drawing/indication then it's really not even warngen-specific, it could be part of the regular map annotation controls. Such as the distance measurement tool (drawing lines) minus the distance readout.

VMMeteorologyAgency

Paul Its primarily for visuals. We are working on our website to eventually push NWS and VM Alerts. It would be simular to Ryan Hall Yalls "Yall Watch."

VMMeteorologyAgency

Paul So what do you think?

VMMeteorologyAgency

It would be like when GR2Analyst had there own 'Warngen Program that gave the text of the warning and the pollygon that was custonmizable within the application that only the issuer could see.

Paul

VMMeteorologyAgency Yes visual-only warngen ability is quite simple. Maybe it should be reserved for the agency license though, and with ability for actually doing something with those polygons, such as triggering an HTTP endpoint on your server with the polygon you drew so it can run your agency's own custom business logic/notifications that you can script yourself wherever and however you want. But even without this special warngen, just having the basic ability to draw/annotation regions on the map is the same thing as what you've described. Unless you can propose additional warning-generation-specific functionality beyond merely drawing polygons on the map. Let me know about that.

firenado

Following this close, having a warngen on this would be great. All I need is the visual for me no triggers, just a polygon and the ability to trigger eta's within the area.

Paul

firenado Let's make it happen. One exciting thing for me as a developer is the decreasing levels of complexity from 2025 out. The core graphics and data rendering next-gen tech is the hard part, but simplistic high-level UI and tooling adds so much value. Combined with the ultra compact installerless EXE and possible adoption of literally instant, immediate updates without even restarting EXE (more on this below), I expect to be 10x more agile with updates to WSV3 Tactical than with WSV3 Professional and its traditional build/release system.

The UI layer in WSV3 Tactical is now a completely separate hot reloading DLL (invisible to user with special memory loading techniques) that can update in literally milliseconds. This is as of the last week, and brings the current in-progress release binary size from about 195kb to about 135kb. I have contemplated modularizing absolutely everything, including the rendering engine and platform layer. This would be a major tactical advantage - ability to push most updates with zero restarts, except for rare EXE updates, which could be a self-restarting mechanism itself (like Chrome).

One philosophy or WSV3 Tactical is treating everything as data - both CPU code and launch resources - just like realtime geospatial data.

I am so pleased with the immediate installerless launching nature of the current development application and would aspire to have full runtime modularization for immediate updates eventually, just possibly not an optimal choice of time before release (up for debate).

The "customer wants to be in control of updates" argument breaks down when considering the streaming data service nature, where updates to server streams are breaking anyways, so why not have a completely automatic, seamless, browser like experience where updates are literally immediate? Industrial license could have a static build version for strict security compliance environments, but for the tactical use case, the requirement is pushing new features and substantive fixes as fast and easy as possible with minimal disruption.

Thoughts?

VMMeteorologyAgency

firenado agreed. It’s purely for visuals for my agency as we can register the polygon on our server to then communicate with our software.

Paul

[unknown] Let's make it happen. One exciting thing for me as a developer is the decreasing levels of complexity from 2025 out. The core graphics and data rendering next-gen tech is the hard part, but simplistic high-level UI and tooling adds so much value. Combined with the ultra compact installerless EXE and possible adoption of literally instant, immediate updates without even restarting EXE (more on this below), I expect to be 10x more agile with updates to WSV3 Tactical than with WSV3 Professional and its traditional build/release system.

The UI layer in WSV3 Tactical is now a completely separate hot reloading DLL (invisible to user with special memory loading techniques) that can update in literally milliseconds. This is as of the last week, ans brings the current in-progress release binary size from about 195kb to about 135kb. I have contemplated modularizing absolutely everything, including the rendering engine and platform layer. This would be a major tactical advantage - ability to push most updates with zero restarts, except for rare EXE updates, which could be a self-restarting mechanism itself (like Chrome).

One philosophy or WSV3 Tactical is treating everything as data - both CPU code and launch resources - just like realtime geospatial data.

The "customer want to be in control of updates" argument breaks down when considering the streaming data service nature, where updates are breaking anyways, so why not have a completely automatic, seamless, browser like experience where updates are literally immediate? Industrial license could have a static build version for strict security compliance environments, but for the tactical use case, the requirement is pushing new features and substantive fixes as fast and easy as possible with minimal disruption.

Thoughts?

VMMeteorologyAgency

@Paul I agree, I’ve never developed any program and still looking for someone to replace my buggy software that I tried to make Lol.