First of all, a bit of context: I have been fighting for ten years now to improve the situation of Météo-France. Ten years that I have had more or less regular exchanges with internal teams, cordial, constructive and mutually appreciated exchanges. Ten years also that I work at the level of the state to make things evolve. You can, for example, read the report we wrote at the request of the Élysée. Years of asking...
Dear Friends Google Maps crushed Mappy, IGN, and a whole bunch of other players in the cartographic world. There is only one serious alternative left: OpenStreetMap – amateurs who share their passion. The same is now happening in the weather world. The new entrants to the market are IBM and Monsanto… giants that are investing billions. Our public services are already on the decline and not…
I recently switched Météo-Parapente to the AROME forecast from Météo-France. It was both an urgent economic necessity, but also – and above all – an improvement. At least, that's what I believe. (I'm not talking about the temporary disappearance of certain data (precipitation, thermals, wind at altitude). That's temporary. It's just that this information requires a little more work, and that for the moment I'm pumped.) But since I switched to AROME, I hear...
I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I received the fuselage. The bad news is that I no longer know where I stored the camera that takes the beautiful photos. So if you want to see it in real life, come to the aperitif tomorrow. Brief. The plastic doesn't look bad. It's beautiful, it's shiny and it even fits together! Rather relieved. Let's remember that this is only the second plastic part I've made in my life. There…
All that was missing was the electronics. And it's done. I just sent out the order for the making of the cards. Lots of cards! The very small one: And the second small one (but still bigger): Well, there's also the tail, but we'll forget about it for now. So if we do all of that multiplied by 500, that's a lot of cards. That's so many cards, you have to organize a bit. So I prepared…
While waiting to receive the propellers, I took the opportunity to adjust the electronics. This is clearly the “easy” part of the project. I reuse what I had already done for the previous series. So normally, we should avoid big surprises. There are 3 PCBs (printed circuit board) in our Pioupiou: The very small one, at the front. It contains one of the battery connectors, as well as the rotation counter for the propeller. No ILS − too fragile, no sensor…
3 big projects this week: It started with my move. Not so insignificant: to work effectively, you need to have a very healthy life… So I left the city to settle in the middle of Grésivaudan. And not just anywhere, since it's at the foot of Saint-Hilaire-du-Touvet. I have my house on the take-off route. The objective "☑ to live in paragliding" is therefore validated! Now, the next step is to install Pioupiou's headquarters in the ZI...
I used Law No. 78-753 of July 17, 1978 to obtain a whole bunch of figures from Météo-France. This law is a brilliant thing, which “recognizes everyone's right to obtain communication of documents held as part of their public service mission by an administration, whatever their form or medium. Ironically, it is also this same law that authorizes MF to sell its data. Anyway, after a bit...
On November 13, I organized a meeting with Météo-France by proposing the following agenda: Feedback on opendata in geospatial / openstreetmap. What parallels can we draw between geospatial and weather? What to expect ? How to best anticipate? Benefits of involving a community. Organizing a weather hackathon: what is it / why / how? Crowdsourcing: Deployment of an amateur network of observers and stations. In order to enrich the debate, I had...