[OSM-talk] Weather overlay
OJ W
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Fri Aug 21 13:06:17 BST 2009
xplanet can download cloud images and overlay them onto a map/globe
http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/
it just needs an OSM world-map image in plate-carre format to use as
the ground image, and you'd have a cloud map.
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Peter Körner<osm-lists at mazdermind.de> wrote:
> 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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