-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm curious. We have those weather applet, which you configure with the name of a city and it periodically interrogates a server and displays the current temperature, wind etc at the place. We can have a few of those for info on some cities nearby. Now, what I wonder, is if there is some type of small weather map on which we configure the cities we are interested on, their positions, and we get their weather conditions on that area of interest. Does it exist? Of course, I know there are web pages that may have that kind of info, but that's rather "heavy handed". - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklmtFgACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WV+wCfZEpIl4lWPb0XFP3sHKkr/AAC UPMAn3zLRXG7qiQaH5CrTyj7zQbbx7nQ =CSJx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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From: Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> ... Now, what I wonder, is if there is some type of small weather map on which we configure the cities we are interested on, their positions, and we get their weather conditions on that area of interest.
Does it exist?
Of course, I know there are web pages that may have that kind of info, but that's rather "heavy handed".
- -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
I'm not sure I see how you could have a map that isn't heavy handed, they're generally big things :) However, this is a Java applet that does something like what you're asking for. It's from NOAA, for pilots. http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov/metars/java/ (Who says Java applets aren't useful :) You could embed it somewhere other than a browser I suppose, though I've never looked at how that would be achieved. HTH, Cheers, Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2009-01-09 at 08:18 -0800, Simon Roberts wrote:
From: Carlos E. R. <> ... Now, what I wonder, is if there is some type of small weather map on which we configure the cities we are interested on, their positions, and we get their weather conditions on that area of interest.
Does it exist?
Of course, I know there are web pages that may have that kind of info, but that's rather "heavy handed".
I'm not sure I see how you could have a map that isn't heavy handed, they're generally big things :)
However, this is a Java applet that does something like what you're asking for. It's from NOAA, for pilots.
http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov/metars/java/
(Who says Java applets aren't useful :)
Interesting...
You could embed it somewhere other than a browser I suppose, though I've never looked at how that would be achieved.
I'll try to sketch what I'm thinking of. city 1 10ºC city 2 cloudy 12ºC very cloudy city 4 8ºC few clouds city 3 15ºC Rainy But instead of letters, having the same icons we get in the weather applet, and clickable to get the details. The map behind can be plain grey or a fixed bitmap. This, of course, could be improved as much as the programmer wants... it could even be a bitmap to be used as desktop wallpaper, updated now and then. It's just a kind of improvement on the panel weather applets we have. I'm thinking I could perhaps programm it myself, if sufficiently bored. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklnnpwACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UW9gCbBqLfRKUZuo/f+CuqHKWuPGjH nNwAnj4zOzter2e8JpbElq4vGPFFGLNI =iYle -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Friday, 2009-01-09 at 08:18 -0800, Simon Roberts wrote:
From: Carlos E. R. <> ... Now, what I wonder, is if there is some type of small weather map on which we configure the cities we are interested on, their positions, and we get their weather conditions on that area of interest.
Does it exist?
You could embed it somewhere other than a browser I suppose, though I've never looked at how that would be achieved.
I'll try to sketch what I'm thinking of.
city 1 10ºC city 2 cloudy 12ºC very cloudy
city 4 8ºC few clouds
city 3 15ºC Rainy
But instead of letters, having the same icons we get in the weather applet, and clickable to get the details. The map behind can be plain grey or a fixed bitmap.
This, of course, could be improved as much as the programmer wants... it could even be a bitmap to be used as desktop wallpaper, updated now and then.
It's just a kind of improvement on the panel weather applets we have. I'm thinking I could perhaps programm it myself, if sufficiently bored.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
Does not really provide what you are after but it might be worth looking at what the UK met office is doing in their Firefox plugin. http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/gadgets/index.html Of course UK only... but maybe the Spanish equivalent is providing something.... - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkloe0oACgkQasN0sSnLmgKNhACfUrQVDo9iP1+n28GEo7uU+e+f 3XwAn0oBabKIPVnPH2q6GsHgPwIj8Lsy =UCrh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 10 January 2009 10:41:14 G T Smith wrote:
Does not really provide what you are after but it might be worth looking at what the UK met office is doing in their Firefox plugin.
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/gadgets/index.html
Of course UK only... but maybe the Spanish equivalent is providing something....
Hey, that's neat. Thanks. YaB (Yet Another Bob) -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.1, Kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default, KDE 3.5.10 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9200GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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