WeatherUK

I’ve released WeatherUK v1.01 to !Store – It displays the BBC Weather forecast for the next three days.
For more information see !Store or http://www.paymentlabs.com/riscos/weatheruk

I’ve also started work on my next one http://www.paymentlabs.com/riscos/rabber , for those who are interested.

Jabber client. Yes please.

Great stuff, Malcolm!

I’ve released WeatherUK v1.01

Excellent. Where can one find more BBC Open Weather location codes to find more-local forecasts?

Where can one find more BBC Open Weather location codes to find more-local forecasts?

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.

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 :-(

Been able to have a look for the first time now after Raik brought my new Lapdock :)
Very nice job indeed Malcom!

t does not appear the be limited to the UK, 2988507 is for Paris and 2078025 is for Adelaide.

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.

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.
once you find the place to click it’s fairly easy.
I used a shell script on Linux to extract the geonames at first, but enough didn’t work for me not to bother.
There is an annoying bug that appears occasionally where beeb caches a gziped version, even though I specify explicitly not to get a gziped version that’s what I get.
It does flush after awhile usually.
I will add gzip support, but after I finish sunning myself :-D I’ll be cracking on with rabber, and then other missing apps before going back to newsuk and weather UK.

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 at paymentlabs dot com

I’ve opened a bug reporting tool it works with netsurf as well! Which suprised me.
You can file bug reports and enhancement requests on there if you want.

It’s not SSL etc. so please use a unique password.