Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Tracks

Generating a TC track map by simply inputting data?

Hello! I am currently interested in tropical cyclone tracking, but I am getting bored with plotting TC tracks by pen and paper. About this TC track generator program, I would like to ask: is it possible for me to generate maps using this program by just inputting my data into the program (coordinates, max wind, category, etc.) and letting it generate the image file with the data I inputted? I actually have not tried to install the program since it got some programming stuff I cannot really understand (I do know a bit of C but my level is very, very little compared with what I read in the instructions article). It would be good if you could also explain in detail how to install and run it. I am currently using Windows 8. Thanks in advance! —Nairb.Idi9 (talk)

To retire

I am going to retire from generating track maps because of the disaster caused by implementing the new colour scale, and those people who decided to implement just ran away from all troubles they have made. My last update should be at around 12Z of December 31, 2023, unless the problems regarding to the new scale are all solved.  🐱💬 15:38, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

@Meow: What disaster and what trouble? As you well know the project as a whole was in one of those catch 22 situations where we couldnt win, since the colour scheme needed to be updated to comply with Wikipedia's rules surrounding accessibility.Jason Rees (talk) 15:54, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

Since the uploaders for hurricanes can't be persuaded to use the new scale, isn't this the most obvious trouble? How about the season maps which are terribly ignored? I am really surprised that people from English Wikipedia don't even know how serious the issues are.  🐱💬 16:02, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

@Meow: Believe it or not I have a life and cant keep an eye on everything that goes on especially surrounding the trackmaps, which I can not personally generate. I would personally hope that people would use the new colours rather than the older ones in good faith and to follow the consensus that emerged on the project page, since the project pratically ripped itself apart over the last few years trying to get this issue sorted.Jason Rees (talk) 16:11, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

I have my life too and I am now very busy on my new job and learning drawing. I am not the person who can deal with all boring politics of this project anymore. It is obvious that people who purposed the new scale do not care about all issues they have brought and they just do not want to address any of our feedbacks. It has been a half of month and those people still have not given any response here, so my decision of giving up on this project shall be continued.  🐱💬 17:03, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

I should give at least one more year to let the situation settle down. 🐱💬 14:53, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

Writing some rules is one thing. Following another. I don't understand why you guys never ignored that trolling. However, now we have to deal with the issue that you are uploading trackmaps to commons all the other language versions of Wikipedia also are using but they did not make the color transformation at all. So we have now maps which do not correspond to infoboxes. And more problematically, the new infoboxes aren't matching us other languages versions' infoboxes at all. It's totally different syntaxes. Basically you gave the tropical cyclones Wiki Projects globally a punch. I have retired from those articles in the German WP totally. Matthiasb (talk) 06:59, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

Question

This may be a bit dumb, but when you generate a track using

./track --year 2004 --name ivan 
./track --year 1928 --id 4 
./track --year 1961 --id 18 --input ../data/wpac.txt
./track --input ~/Downloads/bep022013.dat --format atcf --extra 1

where do we put it? I tried Visual Studio, but it turned up an error. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 11:39, 25 September 2024 (UTC)