Spotter Network

[Bill Hark]

I noticed late last night and again today that I am not getting any vehicle or house icons. The map and other functions (storm reports) are working.
Currently, (4:30 EDT), I am only showing one vehicle, wx3i when I know many are out chasing. In the right hand corner, it does show "map loading please wait" but nothing else loads. I am getting this on both my home and office computer. Anybody else having similar problems?

Bill Hark

[Mike Hollingshead]

I began having problems with it last night while chasing. The SN thing would say it was updating fine, but it wouldn't show on GR3.

[Brandon Smith]

I am having the same issue also. Except I am getting a different spotter, COALEM. I tried clearing my temp files and cookies but that didn't work. Seems like it is a problem on AllisonHouse's end.

[Tony Laubach]

I often have a problem with GRLevel3's placefile disappearing on screen... not sure why this happens, but it does. That would be nice to figure out.

But I think a lot of the problem is SN recently changed their privacy preferences and defaulted a lot of people. I had to change my preferences yesterday as I saw I wasn't showing up either. Turns out they're creating groups to which you can show as little/much info to selected groups (NWS, media, general public, registered users). I bet most people haven't seen or done this yet. This may be why you're seeing odd names and off-ended information if you see anything at all.

[rdale]

If you had a customized SN link - that went away. Go to the site, go to the national display, and you'll see a new URL for the general locations.

[Steve Burrows]

I noticed late last night and again today that I am not getting any vehicle or house icons. The map and other functions (storm reports) are working.
Currently, (4:30 EDT), I am only showing one vehicle, wx3i when I know many are out chasing. In the right hand corner, it does show "map loading please wait" but nothing else loads. I am getting this on both my home and office computer. Anybody else having similar problems?

Bill Hark

Exactly same problem here, working alright in google earth, just the on the website I cant get it working.

[Joe Dorn]

Five of us in our spotter netwotk have had the same problem. I had it on three computers.

Solution:
Go to the Spotter network;
http://www.spotternetwork.org/

Select "National Activity" on the top panel

Under Alternative Feeds
Copy the GRLeveIX URL (or use this one)
http://www.spotternetwork.org/feeds/grlevelx.txt

Open the placefile manager in the GR product

Delete the old spotter network URL (it is probably hilighted red) by highlighting the url and deleteing it.

Create a new placefile entry with the copied URL...

The little cars and houses should reappear when you reconnect.

I had two instances of GRL3 running the first time I tried it and it didn't take...

[Tyler Allison]

I noticed late last night and again today that I am not getting any vehicle or house icons. The map and other functions (storm reports) are working.
Currently, (4:30 EDT), I am only showing one vehicle, wx3i when I know many are out chasing. In the right hand corner, it does show "map loading please wait" but nothing else loads. I am getting this on both my home and office computer. Anybody else having similar problems?

Bill Hark

This was due to me working on getting the SevereStudios integration working. Things should be working again.

[Steve Burrows]

Yup got it up and working again! :)

[Bill Hark]

Joe, thanks for the GR level 3 info. I did your advice and it is working great on that platform. Unfortunately, I am still not getting any houses or cars on the main link:
http://www.spotternetwork.org/google.php

Bill Hark

[Tyler Allison]

Fixed it Bill. Someone was getting creative with the characters in their last name that broke the XML format google wants

[Bill Tabor]

On the settings page I seem unable to set pop ups or automatically approve watchers. How do I set these?

[Tyler Allison]

that's not enabled yet. It's just a place holder so I could test the user interface layout

[Dann Cianca]

I am having the problem described above on multiple computers.

From: http://www.spotternetwork.org/google.php, I am seeing reports but no chasers or homes (cars or houses).

On the right hand side of the screen, I get a message saying: " ... map loading, please wait" I've had the window open for quite a while and have done numerous browser refreshes.

I am using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14

Not complaining ... love the spotter network website! I appreciate all the hard work put into it.

Thanks.

[Tyler Allison]

Hurm...Firefox/Safari on Mac are working..let me go check my Windows PC

[Tyler Allison]

Got it! It was only broken for people _NOT_ logged in. Should be fixed now.

Thanks for the heads up!

[Dann Cianca]

Got it! It was only broken for people _NOT_ logged in. Should be fixed now.

Thanks for the heads up!


Yay! Working great now!! I'll eventually sign up ... waiting to get the ole' laptop and GPS thing goin' ... ;) Thanks man!

[Bill Hark]

Thanks, it is now working great. Awesome website!!

Bill Hark