Change History

v0.6 (2014-05-21)

  • EMSC service now uses fdsnws-event at seismicportal.eu.

v0.5 (2014-04-25)

  • Shifted to git repository at bitbucket.org
  • JS: support save and upload of station lists
  • JS: On submission, reselect between relative and absolute mode.
  • Events module: Handler for fdsnws-event, thanks to INGV. Support multiple instances of a single handler type. The awful eventconfig.py is gone. Prototype class EventWriterFDSNText, for output format=fdsnws-text (for now).
  • Metadata module: /metadata/import method added; changes for download
  • Cosmetic/style changes to Python code for PEP conformance
  • Improvements to testing code.
  • update-metadata.sh - added minimal help

v0.4 (2014-01-22)

  • Events: Magnitude type is displayed in event service output, if available. Removed the GFZ>M6.0 button. Set event.defaultLimit = 800.
  • Stations: support restricted streams, shown in red on the station list.
  • BUG FIX to support IE>8.
  • Moved example HTML files into examples; moved wsgi/webinterface.cfg to wsgi/webinterface.cfg.sample.
  • Documentation: - Notes on customisation, and upgrading. - Notes on browser compatibility, bzip2 compression and response dictionaries. - “WebDC3” references; minor language improvements; lots of minor polish, spell-checking etc.

v0.3 (2013-10-11)

  • js - event services URL can have a limit. Quick M>=6 feature. Extra help comments. Different event symbols.
  • For events and stations, ‘Search’ -> ‘Search/Append’
  • For events and stations, items which are unselected remain visible on the map.
  • Add ‘restricted’ column on station table.
  • Request metadata/streams by POST not GET.
  • Warning on too many unpurged requests at the data centre.
  • Swap “Time Window selection” and “Request information” on submit tool.
  • Added ‘type=”text/javascript”’ to <script> elements in HTML documents.
  • Documentation: Many small improvements and updates.

Initial revision

Compared to the old web interface, developed until 2012, there are many internal and external differences.

  • Site customisation: There’s no more html_chunks.py! Instead just create index.html containing the hooks you need. See Customisation.

  • Modular support for multiple event catalogs.

    • The old NEIC service has been removed, and replaced by USGS’s Comcat service.
    • EMSC’s service has been added.
    • You can upload events from a custom CSV catalog.

  • Stations/metadata:

    • Webinterface caches inventory data from its base Arclink server. This saves many Arclink requests and gives much better performance. The update-metadata.sh script is provided as a tool for refreshing locally downloaded data.
    • There is better display of what streams are available for a particular set of stations.
    • Selection based on sample rate closest to a specific value is possible.

  • Request handling:

    • Request status is displayed for all data centres which were involved in handling a request.
    • Routing/retrying/refreshing.

  • This documentation exists.