intent to package xtide
xtide (GPL)
http://www.universe.digex.net/~dave/xtide/
I compiled this one and checked out the X client and the web
server (yes its not html , but a server) .
XTide is a package that provides tide and current predictions in a wide
variety of formats. Graphs, text listings, and calendars can be generated,
or a tide clock can be provided on your desktop.
XTide can work with X-windows, plain text terminals, or the web. This is
accomplished with three separate programs: the interactive interface
(xtide), the non-interactive or command line interface (tide), and the web
interface (xttpd).
The algorithm that XTide uses to predict tides is the one used by the
National Ocean Service in the U.S. It is significantly more accurate than
the simple tide clocks that can be bought in novelty stores. However, it
takes more to predict tides accurately than just a spiffy algorithm -- you
also need some special data for each and every location for which you want
to predict tides. XTide reads this data from harmonics files that you must
download along with the distribution.
John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
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