[OSM-talk] Weather overlay

[Rob]

maybe you could skip the complete db and make a dynamic kml layer (by using
a php file that outputs xml) in openlayers

Rob

2009/8/20 Peter Körner <osm-lists at mazdermind.de>

> Has anyone ever made an whether-overlay for openstreetmap using the
> Google [1] or the Yahoo API [2]? I think this would be possible with
> mapnik:
>  * load a planet.osm into some kind of db (or process it in-place with
> a sax-parser)
>  * find the regions with ZIP, PLZ or whatever
>  * fetch the whether-info for these regions
>  * add the regions to a/the postgis-db
>  * let a renderd render the overlay-tiles using a stylesheet that only
> displays those whether-regions
>  * server them using openlayers as an overlay
>
> May i'll try this but I wanted to share the idea.
>
> Peter
>
> [1] http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=london&hl=en
> [2] http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/
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