Hey Gerry -- Do you have a database with all the NWS stations? Any chance it's in PostGIS? Any chance if I wrote a little script to find the nearest station to a lat/lon that you'd host it?
Just a shot in the dark... David On 1/31/06, Fawcett, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jerl Simpson > Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 9:05 AM > To: [email protected] > 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 > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: UMN MapServer Users List on behalf of Paolo Cavallini > > Sent: Fri 27-Jan-06 03:35 > > To: [email protected] > > Cc: > > 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. > > > >
