October 10, 2007 13:08
Quote:The commercial people do have access to harmonics that the XTIDE-based people (me!) don't have. That's been proven in England and Australia, and I suspect many other places aren't releasing new harmonics but I can't show this. So I don't find it hard to believe that the commercial programs can get current flow models from government agencies after providing some lucre.
If commercial marine software vendors get access to harmonics from government agencies, wouldn't it be easier for Rich to get access too? Probably it isn't so expensive to get the data, and I would be willing to pay more for Mac Navigational Software if i included reliable tides and currents info.
On the other hand it could be that the data isn't just available to the public because of security issues, that is government don't trust free software? (Which is a shame because most genius applications are from the shareware/free market: Open-Office, Linux etc.)
Though this is just an idea.
Manou