Re: pw_images, UTC, TimeZones, LocalTime

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

Phil Pierotti <phi...@sw...> writes:

> Phil Pierotti wrote:
>> Here are some of my random thoughts on enabling sunrise/sunset
>> calculations in PHP Weather.
>> Current entries in pw_stations = 5130
>> Entries from NOAA (http://weather.noaa.gov/data/nsd_cccc.txt) = 6486
>> - Read the NOAA datafile and update pw_stations
>>     - additional fields for LAT and LONG, STATE, ALTITUDE
>>     - add records for new STATIONS (1356 new entries)

I'm sorry that I haven't commented on those ideas before --- I would
love to see that implemented! Do you have a SourceForge login?  If so,
then I would be very happy to add you to the project.

> Or we could merely leverage the work already done by the developer
> of AirSort:
>
> 	http://freshmeat.net/projects/airsort/
>
> AirSort uses a MySQL table which includes ICAO, latitude and
> longitude.
>
> GPL, even :-)

Uhh... this sounds very interesting! Especially coupled with this
email I got the other day:

> Hello Martin,
>
> First thank you for your great PHPWeather script. I think it is very
> useful and easy to use. After I found this script, I got the idea of
> developing a little weather map for every country (well, currently
> it's only Germany *g). So I took a map, figured out the positions of
> the weather stations, stored the positions in a database and used
> GD-library to put current weather symbols, temperature etc. on this
> map.
>
> If you like to have a look:
> http://www.j0nes.de/wetter/ -> this may take a little time to load,
> as it has to fetch all the METARs first.
>
> Cu Jonas

It would be very cool to have this functionality in PHP Weather, I've
asked Jonas for a SF login so that I can add him to the project.
Unfortunately I haven't been that lucky with adding people to the
project lately because of strange SF bugs:

  https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=200001&aid=898104&group_id=1

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