<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Try <<a href="http://windalert.com" class="">http://windalert.com</a>><div class="">Search for a place on the map, then explore all the widgets. If you see a balloon on the map, click it to reveal options.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ken G. Brown</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 10, 2017, at 13:09, Tom Rushworth <<a href="mailto:tom.b.rushworth@gmail.com" class="">tom.b.rushworth@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi All,<br class=""><br class="">On 10/03/2017 11:00, tim Rowledge wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">[snip]<br class=""></blockquote>...For wind speed and direction I think a compass rose and some magnitude indicator like the length of the needle would work.<br class=""><br class="">Why not leave the length of the needle as fixed, and use either:<br class=""><br class=""> (a) the colour, or<br class=""> (b) the number of decoration (e.g. arrowheads)<br class=""> ASCII graphics won't show much, but here goes -<br class=""> -------> gentle breeze<br class=""> ------>><br class=""> ----->>><br class=""> ---->>>><br class=""> --->>>>> gale<br class=""><br class="">for speed? FWIW, I think there is a type of wind speed/direction map that uses a grid of small needles with varying numbers of half arrowheads to show strength. I can't dig up an example at the moment though.<br class=""><br class="">Regards,<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Tom Rushworth<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>