[horde] Setting Up Weather

[Michael C. Ibarra]

I've just created the entry into hordes db and data was sucessfully
downloaded using http://weather.noaa.gov/data/nsd_cccc.gz as its source.

Next, from where do I select either my location and/or airport from?
I see this choice nowhere within options.

-mike


Quoting Rick Emery <rick at emery.homelinux.net>:

> Quoting "Michael W. Jones" <mjones at otsc.com>:
>
>> Metar works fine if you have the two tables loaded in your Horde database.
>> The files to populate it are located at:
>>
>> ftp://ftp.horde.org/pub/jonah/jonah_weathercountries.tsv
>> ftp://ftp.horde.org/pub/jonah/jonah_weatherstations.tsv
>
> It used to work this way, but was rewritten to use the PEAR Services_Weather
> packages. There are still, however, tables that need to be created in the
> database. See my previous post (or look at
> [PathToPear]/data/Services_Weather/buildMetarDB.php; it's pretty well
> documented) for instructions on setting that up.
>
>> My question is, with the nice service from weather.com, do we really need
>> Metar (which is really an aviation weather service)?  This thought is
>> particularly with the requirement for us to maintain the location database
>> on the server (whereas weather.com does all that for us).
>
> As an aspiring pilot, I use the METAR block (and have it side by side on my
> portal page with the weather.com block). I'm in the process of 
> writing a patch
> that adds TAF (forecast) data to the block, but if the consensus is that the
> METAR block should be removed, I won't bother.
>
> If the block is kept, the procedure for creating the necessary tables
> should be
> documented somewhere (well, it's documented in the PEAR
> Services_Weather files,
> but should horde administrators be required to look in those files?).
> Any ideas
> on where to put it? I can submit a patch...
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Rick
>
> -- Rick Emery
>
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>   you will always long to return"
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