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conda config --add channels conda-forge
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for ensuring that you only use conda-forge, without breaching licensing issues with anaconda default channels, please look at: [https://conda-forge.org/docs/user/transitioning_from_defaults/]
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3) Go through and accept the install of the required packages
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4) at the command line, start the lines software by typing `ml`
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*or*
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## For python installs:
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1) `pip install movinglines`
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1) `pip install movinglines` (or the conda method descried above)
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2) at a command line, start the moving lines software by typing `ml`
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# Quick Start:
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1) Select the mapping profile (defaults to ORACLES), can change the map boundaries, take-off time, utc offset
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1) Select the mapping profile (defaults to most recent campaign), can change the map boundaries, take-off time, utc offset, projection
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2) wait about 30seconds
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3) Enter date of planned flight in dialog in format yyyy-mm-dd
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4) wait for map to initialize and excel to load
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*or*
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1) Press the 'add' button next to 'points:'
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2) Follow the dialog
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2) Follow the dialog *tip: use the 'between 2 points' for easy adding*
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*or*
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1) add a flight module with the button 'flt_module'
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3) New flight path will have different color
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## Adding figures and model maps:
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1) select add WMS
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2) choose which website to load the web map service. For MSS select that one which has the corresponding title
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1) select 'WMS layer' for widely availabel layers.
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*or*
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1) select 'MSS models' or 'MSS Profile' to use bespoke map layers. MSS Profile loads the vertical profile.
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2) choose which website to load the web map service (from the WMS.txt or MSS.txt file).
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3) follow dialogs for selecting the right times, layer, level, etc.
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## Edding any image
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1) Select the image add buttons (Froecast from Bocachica, trajectory image, image, or Tropical tidbit). For general images select 'image button'
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2) Select the image file
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3) if prompts, select the most appropriate image style, if not then use the 'manual' selection and follow those prompts to indicate projection and image file corners.
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4) wait a few moments for image to appear, if not use the 'image' button. Not all image files are compatible, however most .png work.
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## Adding image corner definition for easier future loading.
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1) open the file 'image_corners.json'.
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2) this json file contains, list of named images, with the corner of the image file in a list (lower-left latitude, lower-left longitude, upper-right latitude, upper-right longitude), or in a dict-like with projection information.
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## Adding platform default information:
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1) locate the platform.txt file.
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# Known Bugs:
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- Sometime slow starting up, especiallly when excel is not open
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- Adding figures when not in platecaree / cylindrical / mercator projections is buggy
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# Modification History:
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Modified: Samuel LeBlanc, v1.54, 2024-08-04, Pituffik, Greenland
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- Bug fix to table removed extra lines
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- change kml generation to be named waypoints
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Modified: Samuel LeBlanc, v1.54, Pituffik, Greenland
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- Bug fix to table removed extra lines
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- change kml generation to be named waypoints
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- added feature to change day when loading previous file.
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Modified: Samuel LeBlanc, v1.55, Pituffik, Greenland + Santa Cruz, CA
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- Added fix to coloring of the for_pilots file, and formatting.
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- added an ER2 specific file format.
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- Added longer timeout for mss profile
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- Added ability to add magnetic heading indicator to pilot formats, with magnetic declination in profiles.txt
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Modified: Samuel LeBlanc, v1.56, NASA Langley Research Center, Virginia
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- Added 2 bespoke NURTURE flight modules.
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- Added modifications to zeroth longitude of the North Polar Stereo.
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- Slight modifications to turn bank angles for G3.
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- setup files for NURTURE 2026.
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Modified: Samuel LeBlanc, v1.60, 2025-10-01 (first day of a government shutdown) Santa Cruz, CA
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- bug fix for plotting in multiple different projections, while keeping the great circle lines.
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- New feature - North Atlantic and Pacific-Oceanic routes, based on flightplandb API.
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- New feature - modified the image_corners.json file format to handle different types of projections from input images.
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- Bug fixes to MSS Profile init time checking.
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- Added projection handling in MSS models.
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- Updated the labels.txt for arctic locations that may be important to NURTURE.
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- Added an initial try at a parameterized NASA 777 flight characteristics.
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- Changed defaults of NURTURE projection to lamber azimuthal equal area.
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# TLEs retrieved from www.space-track.org
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# Copy from https://www.space-track.org/basicspacedata/query/class/tle_latest/NORAD_CAT_ID/58928U,25544U,25994U,27424U,28376U,29107U,29108U,37849U,42063U,40697U,43613U,59908U,59881U/EPOCH/%3Enow-10/ORDINAL/1/orderby/EPOCH%20desc/limit/14/format/3le/metadata/false
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