Generating weather maps

[Jonas K. <me...@j0...>]

Hello there,

as Martin posted some days ago, I developed a little weather map with
the help of phpWeather(see: http://www.j0nes.de/wetter/ - be patient,
a lot of METARs have to be fetched *g* - but weather.noaa.gov seems to
be down, so no data for now).
Together with the idea of having lat/long-data for every station in
the database, it would be possible to generate those maps for every
country on the fly.

I just checked how to figure out the positions on the map with
latitude and longitude, and this works quite well - assuming that we
have the exact location and range of the map.
A problem might be to find suitable map data for each country.

But... I found a nice Sourceforge project called GeoClass. It has some
very nice features such as converting lat/long-positions to
x/y-positions, getting position data from DB and storing them in a
GeoObject or, even better, generating maps out of a .e00-textfile.
You can find this project here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/geoclassphp/
I will have to take a closer look at this project. With the help of
those classes weather map generation might get a lot easier.

Cu
Jonas Kaufmann