Re: Re: Package proposal Science_Weather

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 10:23:57AM +0200, lists@zyanka.li wrote: > > [...] > > 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. Saw this inside the weather.com XML "This document is intended only for use by authorized licensees of The Weather Channel." so not great news there. Perhaps some more investigation is required. Hopefully it's a simple free registration although from memory weather.com. I've got some METAR parsing code if anyone is interested as a starting point. It's actually quite a cool format. Cheers, Graeme