phpweather-devel

Metar

[Fabio P. <pa...@ut...>]

Hi guys,

This is my first post on this mailing list.
Does any of you guys know this site ?

http://www.coyotemediaproductions.com/metar/main.asp

It's a perl commercial product very similiar to phpweather. I guess =
someone could check it and see wether it offers some interesting feature =
we could implement in phpweather as well :)

I think it supports TAF

Ciao

Fabio

Re: Metar

[Gyulai Miha'ly <gy...@fb...>]

Fabio Parri =EDrta, 2002-07-29, 18:24-kor kelt level=E9ben, ami 74 so=
rb=F3l =E1llt:

> Does any of you guys know this site ?
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> http://www.coyotemediaproductions.com/metar/main.asp
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> It's a perl commercial product very similiar to phpweather. I guess
> someone could check it and see wether it offers some interesting
> feature we could implement in phpweather as well :)
> I think it supports TAF

I checked the site, but didn't download the script.

According their 'Features' list, it cannot do more than phpweather.

Although the TAF decode is a plus, however TAF gives only a general
description of the coming weather and wind speed, so I'm not sure
TAF deserves the trouble to implement it...

Description talks about 6000 ICAO stations (at one place), but at
another place about 3200 stations... I don't know which one is
correct...

How many ICAO stations does phpweather know?

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Mih=E1ly Gyulai  http://gyulai.freeyellow.com/

Re: Metar

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

Gyulai Miha'ly <gy...@fb...> writes:

> Fabio Parri =EDrta, 2002-07-29, 18:24-kor kelt level=E9ben, ami 74 sorb=
=F3l =E1llt:
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>> Does any of you guys know this site ?
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>> http://www.coyotemediaproductions.com/metar/main.asp
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> I checked the site, but didn't download the script.
>=20
> According their 'Features' list, it cannot do more than phpweather.
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> Although the TAF decode is a plus, however TAF gives only a general
> description of the coming weather and wind speed, so I'm not sure
> TAF deserves the trouble to implement it...

But it's still something that a lot of people want to have on their
websites...
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> Description talks about 6000 ICAO stations (at one place), but at
> another place about 3200 stations... I don't know which one is
> correct...
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> How many ICAO stations does phpweather know?

A lot :-) There's ~5100 stations in the stations.csv file but only
~4500 stations are active. The stations.csv file went from ~3000
stations to ~5100 stations after Tom Corser sent me his list of
stations. See the thread 'New weather site' at GeoCrawler:

  http://makeashorterlink.com/?F2BE11371

We'll have to find the ~500 stations that doesn't belong to our list,
but the list itself should also be updated:

 http://makeashorterlink.com/?W4FE15371

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