Option for no past
Please put an option in settings for the app to not show you information that is in the past. When I look at a GRIB file, I want to see information for the present time, and forward, not for 12-24 hours ago.
I want to be able to page forward and backward by whatever increment I select (6h, 12h, 24h) and arrive back at the present when I page all the way back.
This is a great app, and I like it, but like all GRIB file apps I have ever seen, it has the awful problem of showing you information in the past. On a boat at sea, in marginal conditions, I cannot fool around with weather that has already happened. I need to be able to rapidly page 24h ahead, and again, and again, and then page back to NOW. Anything else is terrible.
Just because the GRIB file as downloaded has historical information in it, between the forecast time and now, does not mean that you have to show it to the user. Optionally, yes, but not by default, and not obliigatorily.
I have recently used this app while crossing the ocean. Believe me, when you are close hauled into 30kts and barfing your guts up, paging back into historical data is a huge problem.
Implemented in 2.2.2 and now live (after a bit of a hiccup so already at version 2.2.4). Thank you for the idea.
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Anonymous commented
I have a slight preference for displaying the forecast for the current time, so display 0900 for any time between 0900 and 1159.
This becomes more of an issue for longer intervals. For a 3-hour interval, it doesn't matter much, but for a 24-hour interval, it could be very confusing to see the next forecast when, say, 18 hours of the current forecast have yet to elapse.
My thinking when using this in the ocean was to always "touch base" with the current forecast and then page forward and back. It didn't bother me if the current forecast was old because I had set a long interval, it only bothered me to see forecasts before the current one. The head, she not work so well out in the barfy place, thus the "touching base" with the current conditions was essential.
We used some very tenuous Internet access out in the watery part, so we started with a 24-hour interval to conserve bandwith and transfer time.
Thank-you very much for making this happen.