Re: Another taf/metar source.

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

"Nick B" <nic...@ya...> writes:

> Thanks for the recent details of cz taf/metars.
> 
> Are you aware of 
> http://blinder.lfv.se/met/metar.europe.htm - follow the links here for 
> other taf/metars for Europe.

No, I didn't know about this site...
 
> I use this in preference to weather.noaa.gov for UK stuff as NWS
> seems to to lag behind, especially when its daytime in the US for
> some reason.

Yes, but the data for say EKYT is several days old :-/
 
> I just have a perl script that scans for a string beginning with the
> desired ICAO locator e.g. EGNX and ending with the = symbol. It
> isn't pretty but it works so I'll only post it here on request :^)

Hehe! I actually think we need a more general solution, and a solution
written in PHP.

We could have each ICAO specify how it should be fetched: most of the
ICAOs would just use the default NOAA fetcher, but the UK ones could
specify that they should use the Swedish URL above.

I don't have time to implement this right now, but I think it's worth
considering...

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