Re: Metar

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

Gyulai Miha'ly <gy...@fb...> writes:

> Fabio Parri =EDrta, 2002-07-29, 18:24-kor kelt level=E9ben, ami 74 sorb=
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>> Does any of you guys know this site ?
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>> http://www.coyotemediaproductions.com/metar/main.asp
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> I checked the site, but didn't download the script.
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> According their 'Features' list, it cannot do more than phpweather.
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> Although the TAF decode is a plus, however TAF gives only a general
> description of the coming weather and wind speed, so I'm not sure
> TAF deserves the trouble to implement it...

But it's still something that a lot of people want to have on their
websites...
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> Description talks about 6000 ICAO stations (at one place), but at
> another place about 3200 stations... I don't know which one is
> correct...
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> How many ICAO stations does phpweather know?

A lot :-) There's ~5100 stations in the stations.csv file but only
~4500 stations are active. The stations.csv file went from ~3000
stations to ~5100 stations after Tom Corser sent me his list of
stations. See the thread 'New weather site' at GeoCrawler:

  http://makeashorterlink.com/?F2BE11371

We'll have to find the ~500 stations that doesn't belong to our list,
but the list itself should also be updated:

 http://makeashorterlink.com/?W4FE15371

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