Re: Package proposal Science_Weather

On 22 Aug 2003 at 3:33, Marshall Roch wrote: > Alexander Wirtz wrote: > > I wrote a small class which retreives XML data from weather.com. > > Is the weather.com data free, or would you only be able to use this > class if you subscribe to it? METAR data is public domain from the > National Weather Service (www.weather.gov). Is there a more specific > name for this package that would allow for another weather package > that processes METAR? Science_Weather and Science_METAR could work, > but maybe someone else has another suggestion before it's too late to > change the name? Hmm, "data for free" sounds nice :-) Didn't hear about METAR up to now. Maybe could Science_Weather be a class that supports multiple sources and is comprised of multiple classes? How about a class Science_Weather as a wrapped / interface for all weather-services - defining a common data structure etc. And then we might have classes Science_Weather_METAR as well as Science_Weather_WheaterDotCom as interfaces to the actual services. I've seen another free service on the web, but can't remember it's name at the moment. They offer weather-data for free via XML-feeds. And maybe there are also regional weather-sites that are of interest to some people. So I think a general Science_Weather as an interface would be another solution. And all Weather-classes should be bundled in a common package. Stefan