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Tornado History Project (THP) maps
Apparently the Tornado History Project has been taken offline. Is this true? CapeVerdeWave (talk) 13:02, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
- @CapeVerdeWave: I'm not sure yet, but it does appear that there is something wrong with it right now at least. I was wondering why you took out all the THP refs from that article. LOL! BTW, when did you discover this issue?ChessEric (talk · contribs) 19:33, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) @CapeVerdeWave and ChessEric: Don't take out links to the Tornado History Project in case it comes back, but instead consider adding links to the internet archvie via archiveurl= and archivedate= .Jason Rees (talk) 20:04, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
- @Jason Rees: I wasn't going to, but if I may ask: how do you do the archive?ChessEric (talk · contribs) 01:47, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
- Just go to the Wayback Machine and copy/paste the URL you want to save, though I don't think will work if the page is already down. @CapeVerdeWave: Adding a {{Dead link|date=January 2021}} tag to those links is preferable to removing them, since at least it shows that there was a source at some point. If THP really is down for good, I'm not terribly surprised since there have been no updates since the addition of the 2017 tornadoes two years ago. Worst case scenario we may have to go to NCDC records, and I have a copy of Significant Tornadoes TornadoLGS (talk) 22:44, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks TornadoLGS for adding that explanation, however, I would comment that some of the THP pages have already been archived.Jason Rees (talk) 01:06, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
- @Jason Rees: My main issue is that I've been expanded the tornado pages WITHOUT archiving the THP pages. So what now?ChessEric (talk · contribs) 23:07, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
- @ChessEric: You may not have archived them but the internet archive has: for example that's their homepage. So some of the URLs will just be a case of setting up archive links, however, I do wonder how reliable that source is.Jason Rees (talk) 02:14, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
- THP? I thought it was done directly from SPC records. TornadoLGS (talk) 02:26, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
- @TornadoLGS: It is, except that record is a LONG set of numbers in Microsoft Excel. No way in HELL am I going through all that.ChessEric (talk · contribs) 03:26, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
- @TornadoLGS: Do you know how to plot the Excel data from SPC on Google Earth? I am attempting to do so in a manner that automatically connects the county-based coordinates within each tornado. Is there a program that I could use to code? CapeVerdeWave (talk) 15:54, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
- @CapeVerdeWave:I have ArcMap, so I could probably make a shapefile(s) from the spreadheets, which could then be converted into kml. I'd have to brush up on that, though. There's a bit of a learning curve with this sort of thing. QGIS is a similar software that is free, but I don't have experience with it. TornadoLGS (talk) 19:36, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
- @CapeVerdeWave and TornadoLGS: I'm actually taking a GIS class that uses ArcGIS this semester at OU. LOL!ChessEric (talk · contribs) 14:36, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
- @CapeVerdeWave:I have ArcMap, so I could probably make a shapefile(s) from the spreadheets, which could then be converted into kml. I'd have to brush up on that, though. There's a bit of a learning curve with this sort of thing. QGIS is a similar software that is free, but I don't have experience with it. TornadoLGS (talk) 19:36, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
- @TornadoLGS: Do you know how to plot the Excel data from SPC on Google Earth? I am attempting to do so in a manner that automatically connects the county-based coordinates within each tornado. Is there a program that I could use to code? CapeVerdeWave (talk) 15:54, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
- @TornadoLGS: It is, except that record is a LONG set of numbers in Microsoft Excel. No way in HELL am I going through all that.ChessEric (talk · contribs) 03:26, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
- THP? I thought it was done directly from SPC records. TornadoLGS (talk) 02:26, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
- @ChessEric: You may not have archived them but the internet archive has: for example that's their homepage. So some of the URLs will just be a case of setting up archive links, however, I do wonder how reliable that source is.Jason Rees (talk) 02:14, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Jason Rees: My main issue is that I've been expanded the tornado pages WITHOUT archiving the THP pages. So what now?ChessEric (talk · contribs) 23:07, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks TornadoLGS for adding that explanation, however, I would comment that some of the THP pages have already been archived.Jason Rees (talk) 01:06, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
- Just go to the Wayback Machine and copy/paste the URL you want to save, though I don't think will work if the page is already down. @CapeVerdeWave: Adding a {{Dead link|date=January 2021}} tag to those links is preferable to removing them, since at least it shows that there was a source at some point. If THP really is down for good, I'm not terribly surprised since there have been no updates since the addition of the 2017 tornadoes two years ago. Worst case scenario we may have to go to NCDC records, and I have a copy of Significant Tornadoes TornadoLGS (talk) 22:44, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
- @Jason Rees: I wasn't going to, but if I may ask: how do you do the archive?ChessEric (talk · contribs) 01:47, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) @CapeVerdeWave and ChessEric: Don't take out links to the Tornado History Project in case it comes back, but instead consider adding links to the internet archvie via archiveurl= and archivedate= .Jason Rees (talk) 20:04, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
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- @MarioJump83: Sure! I don't see why not.ChessEric (talk · contribs) 18:45, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
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@MarioJump83: Thanks man!ChessEric (talk · contribs) 02:32, 20 February 2021 (UTC)
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