On Apr 1, 9:23*am, Eric Greenwell wrote:
On 4/1/2011 9:13 AM, Mike the Strike wrote:

On Apr 1, 8:28 am, *wrote:
On Apr 1, 8:20 am, John
wrote:

Blipmaps show up upside down after upgrading to firefox 4. Has anyone
seen and solved this problem?
Thanks
John Cochrane

Just wait til tomorrow.

Just switch to XC Skies - readable interactive maps that are always
the right way up and more features.

Haven't looked at Blipmaps since switching two years ago.

Before you switch, make sure the forecasts are adequate for your
purposes. A good interface and more features have little value if the
forecasts don't match your weather. In fact, I still prefer the Blipmap
interface by a small margin - quick, easy, adequate.

I followed both for a couple years, and Blipmaps gave more reliable
forecasts in my primary area, the Pacific NW. The "more features" were
intriguing, but not useful because they used the GFS model, which works
poorly in the NW area. I'll revisit XC Skies when they NAM model is
available with the "more features".

--
Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to
email me)
- "Transponders in Sailplanes - Feb/2010" also ADS-B, PCAS, Flarmhttp://tinyurl.com/yb3xywl

Our local soaring group was recently gven a presentation on the
features of XCSkies. One of the features of much local interest in
the spot forecast. I asked what model the spot forecast is based on
since I had noticed the spot forecast didn't change when the forecast
model was changed.

There was a stunned silence, then it became apparent that no one
actually knew where the data they valued so highly had actually come
from.

I have a subsription to XC skies but it is about to lapse. Not
decided yet if I will renew. My primary weather sources are still the
local NWS, and looking out of the window.


Andy