December 26, 2006 10:56
A new player has appeared on the GRIB lanscape, Grib.us. Their url is: http://www.grib.us/
In addition to their web based interface, they have a PC interface, "UGrib", that runs in Windows. I have been running it in VirtualPC with success, I assume that VMWare or Parallels or BootCamp would be even faster on Intel machines. The nice thing about their system is the delivery method, you download the .grb file directly from their server, no intermediate app such as Mail so the request and delivery is a 1 step process. You click "Download" after setting up your needed GRIB and it appears in your download folder. At present, they have only 3 requests for an OS X native version of UGRIB, but if enough Mac users jumped on the bandwagon, I think they would see the value in porting to Mac. Oh yeah, it's a free service....
In addition to their web based interface, they have a PC interface, "UGrib", that runs in Windows. I have been running it in VirtualPC with success, I assume that VMWare or Parallels or BootCamp would be even faster on Intel machines. The nice thing about their system is the delivery method, you download the .grb file directly from their server, no intermediate app such as Mail so the request and delivery is a 1 step process. You click "Download" after setting up your needed GRIB and it appears in your download folder. At present, they have only 3 requests for an OS X native version of UGRIB, but if enough Mac users jumped on the bandwagon, I think they would see the value in porting to Mac. Oh yeah, it's a free service....