WeatherUK
Malcolm Hussain-Gambles (1596) 811 posts |
I’ve released WeatherUK v1.01 to !Store – It displays the BBC Weather forecast for the next three days. I’ve also started work on my next one http://www.paymentlabs.com/riscos/rabber , for those who are interested. |
Jess Hampshire (158) 865 posts |
Jabber client. Yes please. |
WPB (1391) 352 posts |
Great stuff, Malcolm! |
John Williams (567) 768 posts |
Excellent. Where can one find more BBC Open Weather location codes to find more-local forecasts? |
David Pitt (102) 743 posts |
Go to the BBC’s Weather site Enter the location in the “Find a Forecast” box, the number appears in the URL. It does not appear the be limited to the UK, 2988507 is for Paris and 2078025 is for Adelaide. |
Malcolm Hussain-Gambles (1596) 811 posts |
I’m intending to add more country files via the menu with a later release. It works with a lot of locations, the UK has the most dense locations – elsewhere it’s more sporadic. I had to use Dubai when I was coding it to get the sunny day and night working :-( |
patric aristide (434) 418 posts |
Been able to have a look for the first time now after Raik brought my new Lapdock :) |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8155 posts |
The number is a geonames reference. You can download files of the data. Tab separated. http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ 6286545 Shustoke Church End Shustoke Church End 52.51546 -1.64304 S CSTL GB ENG P3 44UB 0 107 Europe/London 2010-05-24 Too long for this text view. First location of one of my local breweries but they moved a few years ago to bigger premises, local publican brewing in the old set. |
Malcolm Hussain-Gambles (1596) 811 posts |
Whilst it does use geonames, not all of the places work. UK coverage is fairly dense though. The best way I’ve found is to search on the BBC weather site, if you’re using netsurf, just click just below the search box and it should show the closest match. |
Conor (2370) 36 posts |
Great app! However, I am having a few issues but there is no contact info for Malcolm and no PM (private message) option here on the forum. Malcolm, how can I get into contact with you outside of this forum? |
Malcolm Hussain-Gambles (1596) 811 posts |
malcolm at paymentlabs dot com |
Malcolm Hussain-Gambles (1596) 811 posts |
I’ve opened a bug reporting tool it works with netsurf as well! Which suprised me. It’s not SSL etc. so please use a unique password. |