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.
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/.
All data for the U.S. and associated locales available from the National Ocean Service web site as of 2011-12-11 have been imported. Stations in the Netherlands and U.K. are also included.
Data for locations outside of the U.S. are for non-commercial use only!
| file | built with | works with | description |
|---|---|---|---|
| harmonics-dwf-20111230-free.tar.bz2 | libtcd 2.2.5 | XTide 2.8+ | Public domain data for the U.S. |
| harmonics-dwf-20111230-nonfree.tar.bz2 | libtcd 2.2.5 | XTide 2.8+ | Restricted-use (non-commercial use only) data for locations outside of the U.S. |
| harmonics-dwf-20111230-SQL.tar.bz2 | Postgres 9.1.2 | Harmbase2 | Dump of Harmbase2 database (both free and nonfree data). |
| harmonics-dwf-20111230-legacy.tar.bz2 | restore_tide_db | nothing | Weak txt/xml rendering of the TCD files above. Not useful with XTide—provided only because of popular demand from other projects that cannot cope with TCD or SQL. Some non-constituent data are lost or damaged in the down-conversion. |
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.
| 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. |
| FreeBSD | FreeBSD package |
| 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 (2.12.1) built with Visual C++ 2010 Express. |
Software:
Other materials:
See also the IHO list of constituents in the next section.
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.