Date Version Category ---------------------------------------------------- 2019-09-01 2019.1.240 General / UI Fire Tropical Tsunami Volcano Weather Bug fixes and various modifications to cleanup and streamline the code 2019-08-21 2019.1.226 Tropical GOES-East tropical floater satellite imagery is currently unavailable for active storms located in the North Atlantic basin; until this situation is resolved enhanced satellite imagery from CIMSS University of Wisconsin-Madison will be used 2019-08-14 2019.1.222 Tsunami Added new capability to retrieve tsunami bulletins from the Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre for the Indian Ocean and Southwest Pacific Ocean regions Fire For U.S. locations in California: restored the capability for processing active incident reports from CAL FIRE; however, static maps and Google Earth KML data for active incidents are currently unavailable on the new CAL FIRE website News Completely revamped the NEWS link feature that appears on many of the content screens: removed the embedded web browser panel that was used for showing a list of Google News & Science Daily links; clicking the NEWS link now automatically opens up your default browser and navigates to a Google search results page using pre-defined keywords based on the content screen you are currently on 2019-07-27 2019.1.176 General / UI & Data *** IMPORTANT NOTICE #1 *** The following affects *existing* installations of Earth Alerts where application data exists: Added code to automatically migrate all application data files and folders from the old location at: \Users\\AppData\Roaming\Earth Alerts to the new location at: \ProgramData\Earth Alerts *** IMPORTANT NOTICE #2 *** You will no longer be able to add any Global or U.S. locations to Earth Alerts until you complete the following: You are now required to have an API Key for all Google based geocoding activities performed by the Earth Alerts application. This requires each user to obtain their own API Key from Google. See the Settings >> Application screen for more information. Sorry for the inconvenience! General / UI Numerous bug fixes and minor UI changes have been made to various screens throughout the application 2019-07-05 2019.1.110 Earthquake Added the capability of displaying "intensity map" and/or "shake map" imagery from the U.S. Geological Survey (not available for all earthquake events) 2019-07-03 2019.1.102 Tropical Extensive code changes to continue to reduce the dependence on Weather Underground as a data source: as a result all imagery for active storms will now be fetched from the National Hurricane Center, Central Pacific Hurricane Center and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center; for each active storm only a single link to WU will be made available within Earth Alerts should you wish to view any WU specific information and imagery for that storm Fire For U.S. locations in California: functionality is currently not working for displaying incident information originating from the Cal Fire website; unfortunately an RSS data feed of active incidents no longer seems to be available as of July 2019; I am still investigating this issue; all incident information originating from InciWeb still works okay 2019-06-29 2019.1.84 General / UI Re-compiled for .NET Framework version 4.8 2019-06-04 2019.1.80 General / UI Various bug fixes Tropical Various code changes to significantly reduce the dependence on Weather Underground as their website and services are no longer a fast, reliable, consistent source of information 2019-04-02 2019.1.70 General / UI Minor bug fixes; re-compiled using Visual Studio 2019 and for .NET Framework version 4.7.2 2019-03-20 2019.1.62 Tropical Various fixes related to missing active Tropical Cyclone storm data caused by recent changes made on the Weather Underground website Landslides Completely removed the Landslides feature from the "United States Overview" section of the app as active landslide data are no longer available directly from the USGS; when available any landslide related incidents provided by InciWeb will appear under the "Fire, Other" section for specific U.S. Locations 2019-03-13 2019.1.56 Weather Various fixes related to missing Current Conditions data caused by recent changes made on the Weather Underground website 2019-02-28 2019.1.50 General / UI Earth Alerts is back from the dead! Numerous bug fixes to get the application back up and running. --------------------------------------------------- 2018-04-22 2018.1.12 General / UI Fixed several bugs related to adding new U.S. locations Fire Various bug fixes related to recent changes made to the InciWeb site and data feeds 2018-03-18 2018.1.10 General / UI Removed 'Image of the Day' feature from the application - the source website/service is no longer available 2017-10-25 2017.1.42 General/UI Fixed several bugs related to adding some new U.S. locations 2017-10-22 2017.1.40 General/UI Fixed several bugs related to adding new Global locations 2017-09-10 2017.1.32 General/UI Additional minor bug fixes and tweaks 2017-09-09 2017.1.30 Sorry folks! Yes, I received all your emails about the various bugs in Earth Alerts. I simply haven't had the time to spend on this project for the past six months or so. I finally found some time today to fix major issues... Weather Bug fix for missing current conditions information for all U.S./Global Locations; the issue was related to numerous recent changes to the Weather Underground website, where I pull current conditions data from Tropical Bug fix for missing/outdated Tropical Weather Outlook reports; also updated the code to fetch the new style tropical outlook images now being used by the Central Pacific Hurricane Center (same style as the images used by the National Hurricane Center) 2017-05-07 2017.1.26 Weather Bug fix for incorrect current conditions information being displayed for some U.S. locations; current conditions information is now retrived based on the latitude/longitude of a location 2017-02-26 2017.1.24 Weather Bug fix for local forecasts not updating when the National Weather Service National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) option is selected 2017-02-11 2017.1.22 Weather Bug fix related to recent changes made by the National Weather Service data feeds for weather related alerts (warnings, watches, advisories, etc.); updated the code for retrieving regional radar imagery due to recent changes made on the Weather Underground website 2017-01-12 2017.1.20 Volcano Volcano reports and related features located under the U.S. Overview section are still disabled in Earth Alerts for the time being. However, the weekly volcano reports located under the Global Overview section continue to be available. Weather Removed the report formatting setting related to NWS reports. This is because the National Weather Service is finally switching most of their text products from ALL UPPERCASE to mixed case formats. Hallelujah! This transition is not yet complete, so expect to see some NWS alert reports in Earth Alerts appear in ALL UPPERCASE for awhile longer. 2017-01-03 2017.1.10 General/UI Happy New Year! Miscellaneous minor bug fixes