[dev] Jonah Weather

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Robin Johnson <robbat2@orbis-terrarum.net>:

> I just grabbed a copy of the CVS tree, and saw the weather system in
> Jonah is in a very sorry state.

I wouldn't say that. It's not great, but it was just added - it certainly
needs work.

> I've been a core developer on the phpMyAdmin for quite a long time now,
> and I was wondering if anybody would object to me re-working the weather
> system of Jonah to use METAR weather data, just like phpWeather
> (http://phpweather.sourceforge.net/).

That would be great!

> My main reasoning for this, is that the places I want weather for have
> better coverage in METAR data than Intercept-Vector data.

It'd be nice to have both options, in a Weather:: subclass setup.

> There is also one other change I want in the weather system along the
> way, regarding the UI, so I will implement it. I want to be able to
> display multiple weather locations. I travel between two cities a lot,
> so my homepage would give me weather for both of them. Plus I think
> there should be a weather feed page that lists all available weather
> data, possibly with a little search tool as found on the phpWeather
> homepage.

That'd be great, too.

> The feature to display weather radar images is neat, but I also want to
> extend it for more visual data, like IR and Visible sattillite data.

I don't think anyone will complain at having more options.

> Have a look at the weather feed on my homepage for some ideas with the
> images:
> http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/?l=weather.maps

Nifty! Hope to see some patches from you soon.

-chuck

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