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If you wanted to make the nearest station calculation simple, you might want to pre-generate a shapefile for the areas that relate to each station, you could then just query the shapefile to get the nearest or most relevant station. 
 
David.
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From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerl Simpson
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 9:05 AM
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Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Live weather data (was WMS Meteo)

I wrote something to do this for my company.  It's not too bad, but it is fairly involved and seems to only work in the US.

You can get all the stations here:
http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/surface/stations.txt

These have international stations as well.
I know in the US, you can use noaa.gov to query current info for a particular station, not sure about the EU.

Basically you have to find the station nearest the lat/lon you have, get the Station ID, then query.  With NOAA you can get the info as XML, which is very handy to parse out.

I know this isn't exactly what you were looking for, but might help a little.

Jerl


On 1/30/06, Ed Dowding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does anyone know if there's a service to which you can send a lat/long and
be returned weather for the nearest weather station?

I was interested in this link (http://maps.customweather.com/image ) from the
previous thread but couldn't get anything useful from it. Any further info?

Thanks,

Ed



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From: UMN MapServer Users List on behalf of Paolo Cavallini
Sent: Fri 27-Jan-06 03:35
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Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] wms meteo



Hi all.
Sorry for the partly offtopic question: can anybody point to a wms resource
for live meteo data, in particular for southern Europe?
Thanking you in advance.
All the best.

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