The progam is used to prepare tidal data for input into Pythagoras, a theodolite tradking software used for Cetacean Monitoring.
Tidal data can be found on Hong Kong Observatory website. It is usually formatted in http://www.hko.gov.hk/tide/cCLKtext2019.html
You should have python installed. Installation guide and Run Pyton in Anaconda Prompt
Assumed Chrome is used.
- Download the program and unzip to local directory
- Go to the tidal data website
- Right click on the data and click inspect
- You will see all the data in the "Fency" toolbox
- Copy and save it as data.txt in the same directory of the program
- Change the year and file name in the scrapAndParse.py
- Run it
The data in the website is concated along the columns. We want to concat the data along the rows.
After we do this, we just sort and output a csv
If you really don't like program, I have also prepare an excel template which does the same things.
- Just found that Data.gov.hk pubish predict tide