After long searching I now decided on Icons: I'll take them from
wikimedia commons
(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Weather_icons) - this is
really the only place where I found proper licensing information, which
allows me to use the images.
There are some ugly icons I know, don't be
There are some pretty cool icon sets here:
http://liquidweather.net/icons.php#iconsets
Not sure if they're free to use under GPL licensing...
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nuzzy
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I just want to say this is really exciting. Lack of a weather
screensaver has been one of my biggest disappointments with the
controller.
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sander
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Here are some UI-design studies for the different resolutions
(Controller/Radio/Touch).
The main area is supposed to toggle between current weather and current
day forecast. Small icons represent 3day-forecast.
Icon will change in the future.
I'm not happy yet with the Radio-resolution. Text is
www.wunderground.com
Provides good local weather. Incorporates personal weather stations
which allows a bit more local weather to be taken into account.
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lrossouw
'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/lrossouw)
lrossouw;458269 Wrote:
www.wunderground.com
Provides good local weather. Incorporates personal weather stations
which allows a bit more local weather to be taken into account.
I'll be taking wunderground indeed.
Yahoo only has two days forcast, weatherbug needs an account (didn't
see this
cparker;457263 Wrote:
In my opinion this is to heavy, most datasets are only updated twice a
day [...]
thanks - his is a really helpful thought !
Good luck with that, most of the API/RSS feeds only give limited data,
so you either need to suck the data from the screen or find a good
bluegaspode;457767 Wrote:
To be honest - the current way the other plugins are working
(screenscraping the website) is definitely a copyright infringement.
Just read the terms of usage on weather.com
(http://www.weather.com/common/home/legal.html?from=footer), 3B: You
may not modify,
bluegaspode;457767 Wrote:
Really appreciate your comments !
Next thing to come are some UI design studies ... now that the 7.4
SqueezePlay is out I even can start to think about the different
resolutions of Touch/Radio/Controller.
If you look for weather panel and or pocket weather
bluegaspode;456714 Wrote:
- should update data every 15min
In my opinion this is to heavy, most datasets are only updated twice a
day, though this obviously depends where you obtain your datafeed. So
you are causing traffic for the provider for no reason. One check per
hour makes sense
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