Can anyone tell me where I can get good weather data (current conditions and forcast) for the world's major cities? I don't need it for me (there's theweathernetwork and such for that), I need to incorporate it into my program. Because of that, the data needs to be pretty raw. I'm thinking of loading some webpage, throwing its contents into a veriable, and then using string functions to get the data I need. But I don't want to load huge weathernetwork pages (I doubt that's even legal), so who can I tell me a place I can legally get raw weather data?
Thanks!
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Last I checked, the national weather service should be a good place for comprehensive AND public domain weather information. You may need to write your own parsers.
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Is there anything worldwide? I know there are METARs (for aircraft), those are public domain, and I even know how to read them (which is actually quite a feat because a metar looks something like this: CYYZ 251300Z 27009KT 15SM FEW030 FEW070 M07/M09 A2992 RMK SC1AC1 SLP144) However, these only provide current conditions, not forecasts. The NWS weather service (http://weather.noaa.gov/) has international weather, but again, no forecasts.
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http://www.erh.noaa.gov/ifps/MapClick.p ... 1&site=okx
Really?
As for worldwide, you'll probably have to cobble together the forecasts from different governmental organizations to stay in the domain of using public domain forecasts.
Edit - I see what you mean... the first link only is for local forecasts. Once again, you'll have to cobble them together.
Really?
As for worldwide, you'll probably have to cobble together the forecasts from different governmental organizations to stay in the domain of using public domain forecasts.
Edit - I see what you mean... the first link only is for local forecasts. Once again, you'll have to cobble them together.