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[saratogaWX]

Hi there,

How do I add "Rain Last Hour" to my home page underneath "Rain Today"?

Thanks

Will

I'm confused... your dashboard is already showing that  

Best regards,
Ken

[William Grimsley]

Hi Ken,

Sorry, forgot to mention that.

Will

[William Grimsley]

Hi Ken,

Is it possible to change what it says and the layout of wxadvisory.php?

Will

[saratogaWX]

Hi Ken,

Is it possible to change what it says and the layout of wxadvisory.php?

Will

Well, with recoding, anything is possible

However, what is currently displayed is what was required by METEOalarm.eu for permission to repost the data.  The comment inside get-meteoalarm-warning.php has the correspondence that gives permission and stipulates what has to be done

Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:39:52 +0200
From: karin buchauer <karin.buchauer at zamg.ac.at>
Organization: zamg

Dear Mr True,

you are quite right:
you can use the material featured on the website, without modifying it, providing the source (link) as well as time and date of issue of the data, as stipulated in the Terms & Conditions.

With best regards,
Karin Buchauer



Ken True schrieb:
> Dear Sirs,
>
> I am an amateur weather enthusiast who also writes scripting for other weather enthusiasts to incorporate weather data into their personal, non-commercial weather websites.  Many of my scripts (which I write as a hobby, and are distributed gratis) are in use on personal weather websites worldwide.
>
> I've had requests to package the excellent data from www.meteoalarm.eu for weather advisories in EU countries, and before I generate a script for that purpose, I'd like to have your permission to proceed.
>
> Your Terms and Conditions page (http://www.meteoalarm.eu/terms.asp?lang=EN ) says:
>
> "The material featured on this site is the common property of the Meteoalarm partners, and is subject to copyright protection.
> The ownership and intellectual rights on all operational and updated awareness and warning information delivered to the Meteoalarm system remain with the Meteoalarm partners who originally delivered this information. The information on this web site may be used freely by the public.
> Before using information obtained from this server special attention should be given to the date & time of the data and products being displayed.
> In case this information is re-used: This information shall not be modified in content and the source of the information has always to be displayed as EUMETNET - MeteoAlarm, or if a single country, the providing national Institute (for internet application in all cases in the form of a link to: www.meteoalarm.eu). The time of issue at www.meteoalarm.eu must be count.
>
> Third parties producing copyrighted works consisting predominantly of the material of this website must provide notice with such work(s) identifying the source of material incorporated and stating that such material is not subject to copyright protection. Further information can be obtained from this following address: meteoalarm@zamg.ac.at"
>
> My reading of this implies that you do permit re-use/publishing of the information with attribution and an active link to the source page for the data on your site, and a note that the data is copyrighted by the data providing organization (and not subject to copyright by the 3rd-party website including/displaying the data).  Is that correct?
>
> Is it ok with you for me to generate a script for displaying national/regional weather alerts using your data from www.meteoalarm.eu with the appropriate attribution.
>
> Please feel free to examine other scripts I've written which use NOAA, Environment Canada, US Geological Services, and temis.nl as data sources (http://saratoga-weather.org/scripts.php ).
>
> Thank you in advance for your response,
>
> Best regards,
> Ken True
> webmaster at saratoga-weather.org
> Saratoga, California, USA

--

Karin Buchauer
Assistant to the Project Manager EMMA

Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik
Regionalstelle für Salzburg und Oberösterreich
Freisaalweg 16
A - 5020 SALZBURG
karin.buchauer at zamg.ac.at       www.zamg.ac.at

So... it's clear you can modify the script, but then you'd be in violation of the terms and conditions of the reuse of the data.

Regrets,

Ken

[William Grimsley]

Hi Ken,

All I want to do is put a line space "<br>" between the "METEOalarm.eu Weather warnings: South West" and the graphics.

Will

[saratogaWX]

Hi Ken,

All I want to do is put a line space "<br>" between the "METEOalarm.eu Weather warnings: South West" and the graphics.

Will

Ahh... that seems to not violate the T&Cs

Change get-meteoalarm-warning.inc.php from

Code:

print "<h1>$EUAregionName</h1>\n";

to

Code:

print "<h1>$EUAregionName</h1>\n<br/>\n";

and that should do it.

Best regards,
Ken

[William Grimsley]

Hi Ken,

Thanks! That did it! I am so picky I can't even make my mind up between "High Gust:" or "High Gust Today:" or Highest Gust" ......

Will

[William Grimsley]

Hi Ken,

Is there anyway of changing the current conditions? I want to change "ThunderstormPartly Cloudy" to "Thunderstorm, Partly cloudy".

Thanks

Will

[saratogaWX]

Hi Ken,

Is there anyway of changing the current conditions? I want to change "ThunderstormPartly Cloudy" to "Thunderstorm, Partly cloudy".

Thanks

Will

I'd have to see it on your website to comment on how it might be fixed .. sorry I couldn't drop in earlier to see it in action on your site.  Generally, the METAR report produces the 'Thunderstorm' word when decoded, and there are multiple METAR codes that are mapped to that interpretation ('TS', 'CB', and 'TCU' all map that way).

Best regards,
Ken

[William Grimsley]

Hi Ken,

hmmm don't think there is a chance of a thunderstorm today. Is there a file I can access like "get-metar-conditions.txt"?

Will

[saratogaWX]

When it happens next time, just copy the raw metar string from the bottom of the wxmetar.php display for the metar that is showing the issue .. then I'll have something to debug with

[William Grimsley]

Hi Ken,

Is there any way I can force it to show that as thunderstorms round here happen on average 5 times a year!

I'd have to be waiting quite a while.

Will

[William Grimsley]

Hi Ken,

It's not ThunderstormsPartly Cloudy this time it's Light RainPartly Cloudy!!!  How do i change it i went into wxmetar.php and couldn't find anything!!!

Will

[William Grimsley]

Hi Ken,

I've done this.

$SITE['overrideRain']   = true; // =true then rain rate will set rain words instead of METAR rain words

To this...

$SITE['overrideRain']   = false; // =true then rain rate will set rain words instead of METAR rain words

That seemed to sort the no space issue.

Will