RunningAHEAD - Topic: Automatic temperature/weather population

mr-fish

posted: 7/22/2010 at 10:22 AM

I often don't end up logging a workout until a couple days after I've completed it. By then, I've usually forgotten the temperature / weather conditions during it & end up leaving them blank.

It'd be pretty slick if temperature/weather conditions could be populated automagically, perhaps based on either a zip code/address specified in a profile or even better, sucked out of a GPX track, if uploaded. Google, yahoo & the NOAA all have APIs that might be usable.

erich

posted: 7/22/2010 at 10:36 AM

Yeah, make sure you don't make a script that goes to weather.com and grabs data. They don't like it and threaten legal action. lol

Greg Rowe

The shirtless wonder

posted: 7/22/2010 at 10:50 AM

This has actually been suggested many times. I think it's high on the user wish-list. Smile

run.therowes.net

eric :)

posted: 7/22/2010 at 1:22 PM

I'd love to add historical weather data but I haven't found a data source yet. If you know of one, I can probably add it in a few days. Here are the requirements:

Preferrably free
Must support international data
Preferably a web service instead of storing it on the RA server

eric :-)

erich

posted: 7/22/2010 at 2:50 PM

I believe the NOAA API fits your requirements.

bdub

Shoe Alarmist

posted: 7/22/2010 at 4:21 PM

For personal use, I use Weather Underground. You can see what was going on in Manhattan on December 8, 1980, for example.

They do have an API but it appears to only be free for personal use. Meh.

http://wiki.wunderground.com/index.php/API_-_XML

Still a decent site for individual research.

erich

posted: 7/22/2010 at 4:44 PM

The API can be used for non-profit public use. But as soon as you charge then you cannot use it.

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