From: p d. t. <pdo...@an...> - 2004-04-30 20:39:54
|
> I've not had the time lately to make this a priority, but I have the code > that will allow for a direct data extract from the National Weather > Service for all US locations. This is not a screen scrape. > (www.noahweather.org) > > It wouldnt take me more than a couple days of dedicated hacking to get it > to work. > > This wont help the non US folks but anyone inside the US would have a > reliable weather plugin. Is it worth doing or not? It's been on the TODO list for the Weather plugin for some time. Fortunatley, the NOAA hasn't changed their screen layout lately, so screen scraping gives data that is probably of the same quality, but that said, yes, that is the direction this plugin needs to go. - Paul |