Re[2]: Generating weather maps

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

Hello,

> Have the HTML page do the query, and send the data in the URL to the map
> generate script. Caching this is *trivial* with the Cache::Lite module.
> [snip]

Thanks, I will try this.

>>>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.
>> Nice idea. World map generation can also be done with the script I
>> use. We also need positions for every country, so it would
>> even be possible to generate the ImageMap to select a country
>> dynamically.
> You mean simply Lat/Long for each station? I've been looking in to that,
> (checkout my earlier posts in the archives) we can get the data easily
> (I just need to get my act together and clean it up and thunk it into
> the METAR station table)

No, we also need the positions of the upper left corner and the lower
right corner of the map in addition to the lat/long-data for each
station. Perhaps we could create a new table pw_countries (cc, country,
min_lat, max_lat,  min_long, max_long) to store this information.
pw_stations could then be reduced to pw_stations(icao, cc). I don't know
whether phpWeather uses the country field from pw_stations.

Cu Jonas