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Warning for Windows users
XTide was designed for Unix and X11, not Microsoft Windows. If
you want to try to use it under Windows anyway, there's a precompiled binary for the command-line client,
and there are also some ports. However,
these are all supported by their respective maintainers. Please route
support questions accordingly.
Contents
Except for the contrib files that are external links, all of the
following can be downloaded by anonymous FTP from ftp://ftp.flaterco.com/xtide/.
Harmonics files
All data for the U.S. and associated locales available from the
National Ocean Service web site as of 2008-12-01 have been
imported. Stations in Germany, Netherlands, and U.K. are also
included.
Data for locations outside of the U.S. are for
non-commercial use only!
You can obtain legacy data for many more locations than are
provided by the files above from Bob Kenney's web
site. However, the legacy data are old and their use is not
recommended.
libtcd source code distribution
-
libtcd-2.2.4.tar.bz2, prerequisite for XTide, tideEditor,
tcd-utils, et al.
- New libtcd documentation
- Old libtcd documentation: Jan Depner, "Format for the
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Master Library (OAML) Tide Constituent
Database," rev. 2003-06-06
XTide source code distribution
World Vector Shoreline data
World Vector
Shoreline data for optional use with XTide 2.5 or newer.
37 MB.
If 37 megs is too much to download, you can download files individually and make do with the lower resolutions.
Find the individual files in ftp://ftp.flaterco.com/xtide/wvs_unpacked/.
These files were published on the National Geophysical Data Center
(NGDC) 5-Minute Gridded Global Relief Data CD-ROM (ETOPO5), 1993, and
are public domain. They are available from NOAA at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/relief/ETOPO5/BOUNDARY/WVS.
Related information is available at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/fliers/93mgg01.html.
If the files are obtained from NOAA, the filenames must be changed to all
lowercase letters to work with XTide.
Contrib packages and patches
- Binary packages:
| OS/Flavor | Info |
|---|
| Linux/Fedora | XTide RPMs are available in Fedora's "everything" package collection
(formerly Fedora Extras) courtesy of Mamoru Tasaka et al. |
| Linux/Debian | Debian
packages courtesy of Peter S. Galbraith. |
| Solaris | Prebuilt packages for both SPARC and Intel platforms
running Solaris 8 or later are available from Blastwave.org courtesy of
C. Jeffery Small. |
| Windows | Windows binary for the command-line client (2.10) built by Leonid Tochinski with VC++.NET2005. |
- Alternative
XTide icons contributed by Morten Kjeldgaard.
- Telephone interface: From NerdVittles, a text-to-speech XTide bot for
the Asterisk PBX (via PBX in a Flash) is available here or here.
- WordPress tide prediction plugin by Mir Rodríguez.
- HTML PHP front
end to generate an enhanced tide calendar with Hawaiian L10n using a
customized pcal 4.11.0 and
XTide 2.9.5, by Eric Nichols.
- Joomla component to
import tide data from XTide, also by Eric Nichols.
- GSHHS patch—test code to make XTide read Global Self-consistent Hierarchical High-resolution Shorelines instead of WVS files (DWF).
For experts only
Software:
-
congen-1.6.tar.bz2. The Congen package includes libcongen, a
C++ library for generating the speeds, equilibrium arguments, and node
factors of tidal constituents, and congen, a command-line program for
generating the speeds, equilibrium arguments, and node factors of
tidal constituents using text files for input and output.
This package requires a case-sensitive file system
to build correctly.
-
harmgen-3.1.tar.bz2, program to derive harmonic constants from water
level observations. Requires Congen 1.6
and Octave.
-
harmbase2-20081228.tar.bz2, harmonic constant management
system. Requires Postgres
8.3.5, Congen 1.6, libtcd and libdstr.
Other materials:
-
seasonal_corrections.xls, a spreadsheet for approximating Sa and Ssa
from Admiralty-style seasonal corrections. Contributed by Art
Najjar of NAVO.
- NAVO.xls,
spreadsheet of constituent definitions contributed by Art Najjar of NAVO.
-
congen_input.txt, input
file for congen. Last update 2004-08-16.
See also the IHO list of constituents in the next section.
Miscellaneous government publications
IHO list of constituents, downloaded from
http://www.iho.shom.fr/COMMITTEES/TC/Constituents.pdf on 2004-08-13 and 2006-08-25.
Tide and
Current Glossary. National Ocean Service, January
2000. Downloaded from
NOS,
2003-12-19.
Tidal Datums and their Applications. NOAA Special Publication NOS CO-OPS 1, June 2000. Downloaded from
NOS, 2004-08-27.
Computational Techniques for Tidal Datums Handbook. NOAA Special Publication NOS CO-OPS 2, September 2003. Downloaded from
NOS, 2007-03-01.
Nathaniel Bowditch, LL.D. The American Practical
Navigator: An Epitome of Navigation. NIMA Pub. No. 9,
Bicentennial Edition, 2002. Downloaded from NGA,
2004-09-28. 42 MB. Chapter 9 is a tutorial on tides and currents.
Old crap
-
xtide-1.6.2.tar.gz,
the final, frozen revision of XTide 1. No longer supported.
- I no longer support the Java applets for XTide. There will be
no Java support in XTide 2. However, the
unmaintained, unsupported Java applets can still be downloaded from xtide_java_jdk1.0.tar.gz. The JDK
1.1 update, xtide_java_jdk1.1.tar.gz, was
never finished.
-
harmbase_2004-08-09.tar.gz, old harmonic constant management system.
Requires Postgres (see README).
-
converters.tar.gz, software
to convert (1) From Ed Wallner's TIDES 4 format to XTide's harmonics file format;
(2) From XTide format to TIDES 4 format;
(3) From the NOS data file format to XTide format.
These converters were obsoleted by Harmbase, which incorporates
better conversions.
You also need to download the mapfile to use these.
Last revision 1997-08-09.
-
map.txt, map file
for use with the preceding conversion software.
Last revision 2001-01-15.
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