RunningAHEAD - Topic: Can you make the weather auto populate?

oo-punisher

posted: 5/28/2009 at 4:21 PM

Can you make the weather auto populate? I have seen this done with sportTracks and thought it would be a nice feature for running ahead.

eric :)

posted: 5/28/2009 at 6:14 PM

Do you know their data source? I would love to do it, but I need a data source that provides historical data.

Ennay

A Saucy Wench

posted: 5/28/2009 at 6:16 PM

in a totally useless addition to the thread...doesnt MotionBased also do that? I only imported my GPS stuff in there once or twice and it seemed that it did.

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"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7

eric :)

posted: 5/28/2009 at 6:23 PM

Yes they do. I'm not sure whether they have to pay for the service though. Free would be nice.

NaderAlfie

posted: 5/28/2009 at 7:33 PM

Quote from oo-punisher on 5/28/2009 at 4:21 PM:

Can you make the weather auto populate?

I think this is asking a lot of a mere mortal, even Eric.

"If you have the fire, run..." -John Climacus

AmoresPerros

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posted: 5/28/2009 at 7:58 PM

Weather by Twain

It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.

Afty

posted: 5/28/2009 at 8:23 PM

Weather Underground provides historical weather as a CSV file. For example, here is the weather for Boston from today:
http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KBOS/2009/5/28/DailyHistory.html?req_city=NA&req_state=NA&req_statename=NA&format=1

adamengst

posted: 5/29/2009 at 10:20 AM

Thanks for the Weather Underground link- I was going to ask just this question as well, since particularly with GPS import, the time of day and location are already known.

cheers... -Adam

eric :)

posted: 5/30/2009 at 1:25 PM

Weather Underground's licensing allows only personal, non-commercial use. RA is considered commercial and therefore cannot use it. I'm sure Weather Underground has a commercial licensing agreement, I cannot afford to do that at the moment.

Dingus_B

posted: 6/17/2009 at 2:34 PM

You can get weather information from Google or Yahoo.

See this post:

http://sitening.com/blog/google-weather-feed/

BadDawg

posted: 6/20/2009 at 11:19 PM
modified: 6/20/2009 at 11:19 PM

Quote from NaderAlfie on 5/28/2009 at 7:33 PM:

I think this is asking a lot of a mere mortal, even Eric.

I have been fortunate enough to meet the great and powerful Eric, he is no mere mortal.

E.J.
Greater Lowell Road Runners
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Neil Gunn

Gandalf the Grey

posted: 6/21/2009 at 5:22 AM

Quote from BadDawg on 6/20/2009 at 11:19 PM:

I have been fortunate enough to meet the great and powerful Eric, he is no mere mortal.

+1

Neil

Running ... just keep running!

Fireguy

posted: 7/12/2009 at 2:19 PM
modified: 7/12/2009 at 2:29 PM

You can get current raw observation data from the National Weather Service via several sources. However, for most of these, you need to know your local station ID. For example: William J. Fox Airfield in Lancaster, CA is KWJF.

FTP: ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/decoded/

HTTP: http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/decoded/

XML/RSS feeds: http://www.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/

For historical data, it's a bit trickier. Using the NWS, the data will need to be extracted from a more complex page.

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?sid=KWJF&banner=off&num=700

You need more location data for this link. SID is again the station ID. NUM is the number of recent observations to display. (72 = past 3 days, 168 = 7 days, etc...)

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