Hi everyone.
I am in the process of building a surfing conditions forecast site for the UK, and at the moment im really struggling with GRads software to produce a swell chart from GRIB files for the UK - (North West Atlantic).
I have discovered that there is a different method of producing these charts with Python but i really wouldnt know where to start ,the details can be found at a google thread here.
"So to be more clear, I've used PyGrib2 to read the data from the grib file and transform it in an array that I feed to Matplotlib for plotting. To get the correct projection and the terrain I'm using Basemap together with Matplotlib. Once the image is created I use PIL to crop it and save it for the site. PyGrib2, Matplotlib, Basemap and PIL are toolkits that you install over your Python to expand it's capabilities......."
To check out what they can do take a look at their web pages:
PyGrib2 - http://code.google.com/p/pygrib2/
Matplotlib - http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gallery.html
Basemap - http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Maps
PIL - http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/index.htm
If you could let me know what this would cost? Either for a tutorial or to build one for me, It would be most appreciated.
The site i am building can be found at www.sixsurf.co.uk
Cheers
Al