If anyone is interested, I can put up the weather code I use to
retrieve my local weather. Unfortunately, it won't help anyone
outside the us, since it pulls directly from the noaa website, but it
does work fairly well, and all you need to change is your longitude/
latitude to get it working for your system. It's meant as a web app,
so it's written in php, but I have a shell script I use to launch it
locally, that runs the php code directly instead of via being embeded
into a web page. it still loads a web page that is created on the
fly for your viewing pleasure, with a 7-day forcast, and everything
is labeled and completely vo accessible. I'll toss it up on the
softcon mac pages for folks to grab if there is any interest. It's
not really meant for public consumption, but with that disclaimer
stated, I'm willing to post it anyway if there's interest.
I'd initially written it for myself, then spruced it up, tried to
submit it to one of those online sites that have code snippets for
sale, but they said they couldn't accept it, because their weather
category was already saturated. This was odd, because the only
weather code snippets they had were for using google, not
accuweather, not yahoo, and certainly none for noaa weather, which
considering all american weather sources take their weather directly
from noaa weather puzzled me. Kind of like telling microsoft you
can't accept them as a reseller, because you already have too many
folks selling ms products, but such is life.
Anyway, I'll make it available if anyone asks, but otherwise, I'll
keep it here and use it as I always do. :)
Also, in case folks need it, I modified the weather widget that comes
with dashboard quite some time ago so that it presents the
information in a better format, more suitable to vo users, and that
is already posted on the softcon pages, folks are welcome to download
that and use it on their machines.
You can find the softcon pages at:
http://www.softcon.com/mac/
hth.
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