Re: Generating weather maps

[Phil P. <phi...@sw...>]

Very nice.

A simple workaround for the "it's not fast" issue would be to schedule 
(eg cron) the map generation rather than recalculating it for each Page 
View.

I believe most METARS are only released on an hourly schedule, though I 
think I recall reading somewhere that some locations generate 
half-hourly ones.

One simple thing I'd always thought would look nice was a worldmap with 
every METAR station pinpointed. ImageMap to select a country, then show 
(for example) your country weather map, and image-map to get detailed 
METAR report.

Phil P

Jonas Kaufmann wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
>   
> 
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials
> Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of
> GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system
> administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click
> _______________________________________________
> PHPWeather-devel mailing list
> PHP...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpweather-devel
> 
>