Re: New weather site

[Martin G. <gim...@gi...>]

"Tom Corser" <to...@to...> writes:

> Ive been developing a weather site based around PHP weather, the aim
> in the long run is to have a fast updating database, that other
> webmasters can use to access up to date weather reports quickly and
> easily.

So, should you site work as a kind of mirror or the data at the NWS?
I've thought about that too, but it gives rise to a whole bunch of new
(interesting) problems...
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> Database info: the database is updated every 15 minutes by the
> update_metars_db() function,

Apropos your database: I've merged the data you gave me with the data
I already had and the result is a list of 5131 stations. I can send it
to you as a SQL dump if you like.

I don't know how many of the new stations actually produce METARs, but
it seams that there are many dead stations... We should probably ask
the NWS for their list of active stations so that we can provide an
accurate list.

> Ive been in email conversation with Martin, he suggested I make an
> output plug in for PHP Weather 2, The site is based around v1.6,
> when I have some time Ill have a look through the v2 code and
> (probably) make an output plug in if its not too difficult!

Well, I think it's easy, but that's probably because I'm the one who
made the system ;-) Ask here for help if you get stuck.

> What do you think about the site and the speed of the reports?

I think the speed is great!

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