8 Jan
2021
8 Jan
'21
11:15 p.m.
On Friday 08 January 2021 11:11:18 deloptes via tde-users wrote:
Michael via tde-users wrote:
I, too, was just skimming the last couple posts, but I noticed that for US
entries, postal codes for states were listed by deloptes from his dat source,
but for Europe, etc., similar codes are given. What I remember of UK postal
codes (for instance) does not match this two-letter scheme.
Is there some database that can be used as a source, so that it is consistent?
It would be okay to use both airport codes and postal codes (called ZIP codes
in the US), as well as any other source, but it would be nice if users had
some inkling of the source; e.g., as Michael suggested, we could use Weather
Underground -- or maybe multiple sources?
The problem here is of course that the business of weather forecasts varies
from one place to another; there is no World Weather Federation.
Bill
I admit I've only been skiming this thread, I
tried kweather once, it
didn't have my nearest airport, nor could I figure out how to manually
enter my airport's code ID, so it wasn't really useful. That said...
Now hopefully you know how to set it up manually
Q1:
Isn't there already an 'official' mapping of countries to regions? I
know I've used this data on other people's websites (and Timezone data
kinda does this as well), so I'd bet there is some goverment function
somewhere that already maps it to pull from.
I don't know
Q2:
Wouldn't it be better to have kweather itself auto-generate stations real
time off of noaa? That'd at least solve the "can't find my known
airport." Or at least a way to manually enter an airports code ID?
Asked this and the Gods said - no. Also the DB is updated not very
frequently
Alternative 1:
Would it be feasable to pull from wunderground.com (at least by manually
entering station names)? Last summer I needed average temps around me
for an attic fan setup and used data from wunderground. See attached.
It's not pretty, but it worked well enough..
No because the IDs are different - not sure if these are the same stations
at all.
Nice to have would be different backends for kweather.
Okay, bowing out, best,
Michael