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<DIV><SPAN class=595120915-31012006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>If you
wanted to make the nearest station calculation simple, you might want to
pre-generate a shapefile for the areas that relate to each station, you could
then just query the shapefile to get the nearest or most relevant station.
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<DIV><SPAN class=595120915-31012006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>David.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> UMN MapServer
Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Jerl
Simpson<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 31, 2006 9:05 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS]
Live weather data (was WMS Meteo)<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>I wrote something to do
this for my company. It's not too bad, but it is fairly involved and
seems to only work in the US.<BR><BR>You can get all the stations here:<BR><A
href="http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/surface/stations.txt">http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/surface/stations.txt</A><BR><BR>These
have international stations as well.<BR>I know in the US, you can use <A
href="http://noaa.gov">noaa.gov</A> to query current info for a particular
station, not sure about the EU. <BR><BR>Basically you have to find the station
nearest the lat/lon you have, get the Station ID, then query. With NOAA
you can get the info as XML, which is very handy to parse out.<BR><BR>I know
this isn't exactly what you were looking for, but might help a little.
<BR><BR>Jerl<BR><BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 1/30/06, <B class=gmail_sendername>Ed
Dowding</B> <<A href="mailto:ed@citysafe.org">ed@citysafe.org</A>>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Does
anyone know if there's a service to which you can send a lat/long and<BR>be
returned weather for the nearest weather station?<BR><BR>I was interested in
this link (<A
href="http://maps.customweather.com/image">http://maps.customweather.com/image
</A>) from the<BR>previous thread but couldn't get anything useful from it.
Any further info?<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR><BR>Ed<BR><BR><BR><BR>-----Original
Message-----<BR>From: UMN MapServer Users List on behalf of Paolo Cavallini
<BR>Sent: Fri 27-Jan-06 03:35<BR>To: <A
href="mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS@lists.umn.edu">MAPSERVER-USERS@lists.umn.edu</A><BR>Cc:<BR>Subject:
[UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] wms meteo<BR><BR><BR><BR>Hi all.<BR>Sorry for the
partly offtopic question: can anybody point to a wms resource <BR>for live
meteo data, in particular for southern Europe?<BR>Thanking you in
advance.<BR>All the best.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>