Re: Location and weather data.
The closest thing I can think of is PictureFrame… https://www.nongnu.org/gap/pictureframe/index.html It does show some weather data. GC On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 20:35 Marco Cawthorne wrote: > On 2023-09-28 15:27:18 -0700 Paulo Delgado > wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I'm learning ObjC/GNUstep and decided to write a weather app as my > > starter > > project (https://github.com/paulodelgado/Weather.app). Initially I > > was > > pulling data from "WeatherApi.com" but I realized this wont be > > sustainable as > > because of the pricing limitations of each access token. > > > > I went out to see how other open source apps gather weather data and > > in doing > > so I checked out the GNOME weather app and found out there's a > > library called > > "libgweather" (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgweather). > > > > Is there something similar in GNUstep? If not, would it be a good > > idea to > > write a clone of this library specifically for use of other GNUstep > > apps? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Paulo Delgado > > > > > > Hello Paulo, there's been apps that have queried weather sources such > as NOAA's National Weather Service without an API in the past. For > example, wmweather asks you to provide the weather station identifier > (such as EDDB, for Berlin) and you can get a METAR report via plain > text here: > > https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/decoded/EDDB.TXT > > That should be trivial to parse to not need a dedicated library, > if you're aiming for minimalism anyway. However a dedicated library > that uses that info, localizes it and exposes a very Cocoa-like API > does sound like a useful project! > > -- Marco > > >
Re: Location and weather data.
On 2023-09-28 15:27:18 -0700 Paulo Delgado wrote: Hello all, I'm learning ObjC/GNUstep and decided to write a weather app as my starter project (https://github.com/paulodelgado/Weather.app). Initially I was pulling data from "WeatherApi.com" but I realized this wont be sustainable as because of the pricing limitations of each access token. I went out to see how other open source apps gather weather data and in doing so I checked out the GNOME weather app and found out there's a library called "libgweather" (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgweather). Is there something similar in GNUstep? If not, would it be a good idea to write a clone of this library specifically for use of other GNUstep apps? Thanks, Paulo Delgado Hello Paulo, there's been apps that have queried weather sources such as NOAA's National Weather Service without an API in the past. For example, wmweather asks you to provide the weather station identifier (such as EDDB, for Berlin) and you can get a METAR report via plain text here: https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/decoded/EDDB.TXT That should be trivial to parse to not need a dedicated library, if you're aiming for minimalism anyway. However a dedicated library that uses that info, localizes it and exposes a very Cocoa-like API does sound like a useful project! -- Marco
Location and weather data.
Hello all, I'm learning ObjC/GNUstep and decided to write a weather app as my starter project (https://github.com/paulodelgado/Weather.app). Initially I was pulling data from "WeatherApi.com" but I realized this wont be sustainable as because of the pricing limitations of each access token. I went out to see how other open source apps gather weather data and in doing so I checked out the GNOME weather app and found out there's a library called "libgweather" (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgweather). Is there something similar in GNUstep? If not, would it be a good idea to write a clone of this library specifically for use of other GNUstep apps? Thanks, Paulo Delgado
