Re: Package proposal Science_Weather

Sorry for not properly replying, but you didn't include me in the address-list and I'm not subscribed to pear-dev, you have to group-reply please! > > 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? Ok, the problem is that METAR has a much more coarse weather-grid, because it only represents the weather-data gathered at airports, and not even at everyone, but only at larger ports with data-uplinks... figures. Also it's not XML used there, but a proprietary data-representation, no big deal. On the other hand, weather.com is free for registered people _and_ for open-source software, providing that data. Please see http://download.weather.com/web/xml/sdk.zip for further details... it's a pdf included there. > [...] > 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. Ok, as you brought up that topic, I'm willing to write a framework for at least weather.com and METAR, I also saw another provider for weather XML data, but this website was non existent, so I didn't followup'ed. > 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. To me the system would work as e.g. Cache, one main class and a Weather/ directory containing the multiple services, so everything would be kept in one package. Sounds ok? Regards, Alex P.S. don't forget to include me in the cc ;-)