Hi - i dont even have my AWS yet - coming from the usa by courier!. Have been looking at WDL and many sites that use it. I was wondering if it would be possible to select a number of sites and then have a (tabular) view of their data displayed. Thus getting comparisons of live weather from all over the place simultaneously.
Obviously the table would be limited in the number of parameters displayed…
Regards
G
Hi
I’ve been thinking about doing this sort of thing with a mesomap. You could point WDL at others clientraw files and then display the results over a map.
There are a couple of problems - users would need to position sites over their own map somehow, and uploading multiple clientraw files from sites with varying connection speeds and reliability would have to be carefully written to avoid poor performance. A better solution would be to get the data from a central location but this might not be possible.
I want to write the separate application to allow users to position the dials and gauges exactly where they want first then the mesomap should be a bit easier for the user to implement.
Julian
Hi - wasnt really thinking of a map. But I suppose that would be cool (if a little small)
Could the clientraw upload be made to point at multiple locations, (personal website and shared data) if so then all one would need is some FTP space somewhere to point this idea at.
How the user would select which, of all those who contibute, they wished to display is a matter for you clever developer types.
G
Yes could do it that way. If it was just displayed in tabular form though I’d be tempted to do it in html - easier and more flexible.
Julian
This is something I have been looking into creating for my area, but we all use different software etc, so I put it down as a non starter. It would be nice if you could do it.
It would be worth another $20.00 to you!! 
Vegit8, lets share data for the South of England.
This site which you (Shaun) pointed to a while ago just uses html to consolidate data from multiple weatherlink sites.
http://users.pandora.be/peterulenaers/ANDEREDAVISVANTAGEPROWEERSTATIONS.HTM
Oh no! That means I’ll have to start thinking about how to do it now… :lol:
Julian
Oh no! That means I'll have to start thinking about how to do it now... :lol:XML - right?Julian
This site which you (Shaun) pointed to a while ago just uses html to consolidate data from multiple weatherlink sites.
As long as the sites used a common data format you could easily do it with asp or php to produce a live table in html which would look better than a series of links.
I think a mesomap might have to wait for v2 of WDL as it would be tricky for users to co-ordinate places on a map with xy co-ordinates and guesswork, but a table that comes up like the graph may be possible.
Julian
XML - right?
Yes you could do it with the xml file from WD but it is much larger than the clientraw file. As the clientraw file is just space separated and a common format I would grab it from that - the user would have to specify in the config file, which is xml, the parameters to show and the weather stations to display/link to etc.
Julian
nikoshepherd
I am aware of this site as we do share data with it. I was thinking of something a little more subtle, with data appearing in a textual form rather than the images from weatherlink.
You wouldn’t see much of the map on a 17" monitor with 1024x768 resolution!
Yes Shaun it would be good to share South Coast data. All i envisage is a Web page with a table. Each row representing a AWS somewhere. Each cell could either contain textual data for values or a simple bar graph (on its side).
I am not looking for loads of data per station just the major ones.
Geoff