-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2009-01-09 at 08:18 -0800, Simon Roberts wrote:

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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-----

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