On Friday 08 January 2021 10:57:32 am deloptes via tde-users wrote:
Stefan Krusche via tde-users wrote:
What do
you think?
Great! Sounds like cooperation. What else can we expect from each other
or this community!
I think I found the source of stations.dat. What could be useful is a
mapping of countries to regions. Then weather_stations.desktop could be
generated automatically out of stations.dat.
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...
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.
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?
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..
Okay, bowing out, best,
Michael