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Display NOAA station gauges using .Net application.
wuhu_software:
If you would like to check out a cool weather gauge package under development, please check out the link below.
After you install, you simply select a location from the drop-down list and hit "spawn". You may spawn multiple locations.
The program will launch a set of gauges for that location. The data will be retrieved from the NOAA website using XML files. The program will refresh the data based upon the recommended pick up time for new data stored within the XML file.
You can right click the gauges for options including setting the size and transparency.
One caution is that you probably need a machine that is fairly fast, capable of running .Net applications. I would not recommend running on say an old 450mhz PII.
Also, the installation may require the latest .Net stuff so you may be prompted to install updates from Microsoft.
http://www.markwyman.com/projects/default.asp
weatherforyou:
Very cool looking! What would it take to access the XML data at weatherforyou.com/HAMweather so it could be used to display data from personal weather stations sending their data there? :)
wuhu_software:
--- Quote from: "weatherforyou" ---Very cool looking! What would it take to access the XML data at weatherforyou.com/HAMweather so it could be used to display data from personal weather stations sending their data there? :)
--- End quote ---
I asked the same thing about whether findu could produce the NOAA compatible files for CWOP stations.
It is a decent standard to use since it is a open public format.
I am planning on outputing this format from my software as well.
weatherforyou:
I'll double check, but I think the XML files we're producing with PWS data matches NOAA's format. It's been out there for quite a while, but I don't think anyone is accessing it yet. This would be a great application to display it.
wuhu_software:
--- Quote from: "wuhu_software" ---
--- Quote from: "weatherforyou" ---Very cool looking! What would it take to access the XML data at weatherforyou.com/HAMweather so it could be used to display data from personal weather stations sending their data there? :)
--- End quote ---
I asked the same thing about whether findu could produce the NOAA compatible files for CWOP stations.
It is a decent standard to use since it is a open public format.
I am planning on outputing this format from my software as well.
--- End quote ---
I received my answer from Steve Dimse, apparently findu will not be serving up XML pages any time soon.
Oh well, it was worth a shot.
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:47:45 -0500
From: Steve Dimse <steve@dimse.com>
Subject: Re: [wxqc] findu and XML NOAA style reports.
To: Discussion of weather data quality issues
<wxqc@lists.gladstonefamily.net>
On Jan 19, 2007, at 2:59 PM, H. Smith wrote:
> If it findu does not currently generate such XML files, would it be
> possible
> to do so for all CWOP stations?
>
No. FindU does not have the capacity to serve as the XML backend for
other applications. I already handle 30 million his a month, and
cannot afford to add another server.
Steve K4HG
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