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No SIGMET plotting?


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When clicking on a SIGMET in the weather tab, wondering why it only highlights the affected FIR region as opposed to the actual area in the SIGMET coordinates.

I find myself switching to skyvector.com to achieve this which seems to be able to show this quite nicely.

Why not in SD?

Thanks!
Edited 8/24/2016 5:59:46 PM by buckleyp
Tim Dawson
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It is not possible to always do this accurately every time, so at present we do not attempt it. What region are you looking at?
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UK & France

What's the problem with the coordinates in the SIGMET? They always seem to be there and like I said skyvector.com does it fine.

Thanks.
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The coordinates do not always describe a polygon, and they are often more of a plain-text description such as "north of 52N within the London FIR" etc.
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I must have been lucky as all the ones I happen to have looked at have all been polygons.

Could you plot the polygon if it's there at least? highlighting the whole FIR is more or less useless
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We will make a note to research the scope of this as a development task at some point in the near future.
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Tim Dawson - 8/30/2016 9:44:12 AM
We will make a note to research the scope of this as a development task at some point in the near future.


any update on this? 

‌‌SIGMET04 active right now:

SEVERE MOUNTAIN WAVES OBSERVED WI N5500 W00100 - N5500 W00021 - N5410 W00024 - N5333 W00521 - N5500 W00525 - N5500 W00100 FL050/250 STATIONARY NO CHANGE‌‌

skyvector plots this fine showing it in the north of england‌ but SD plots the whole FIR so not very useful

thank you!‌‌

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You can rest assured that if/when there is an update regarding graphical depiction of SIGMET in SkyDemon, we will not keep it a secret.
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Hooray!

It took a while but worth the wait! 😀👏🏻👏🏻
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You will see lots of attention having been paid to SIGMET in the forthcoming 3.12.4 release.
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