The closest thing I can think of is PictureFrame… https://www.nongnu.org/gap/pictureframe/index.html
It does show some weather data. GC On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 20:35 Marco Cawthorne <ma...@icculus.org> wrote: > On 2023-09-28 15:27:18 -0700 Paulo Delgado <pa...@paulodelgado.com> > wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I'm learning ObjC/GNUstep and decided to write a weather app as my > > starter > > project (https://github.com/paulodelgado/Weather.app). Initially I > > was > > pulling data from "WeatherApi.com" but I realized this wont be > > sustainable as > > because of the pricing limitations of each access token. > > > > I went out to see how other open source apps gather weather data and > > in doing > > so I checked out the GNOME weather app and found out there's a > > library called > > "libgweather" (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgweather). > > > > Is there something similar in GNUstep? If not, would it be a good > > idea to > > write a clone of this library specifically for use of other GNUstep > > apps? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Paulo Delgado > > > > > > Hello Paulo, there's been apps that have queried weather sources such > as NOAA's National Weather Service without an API in the past. For > example, wmweather asks you to provide the weather station identifier > (such as EDDB, for Berlin) and you can get a METAR report via plain > text here: > > https://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/decoded/EDDB.TXT > > That should be trivial to parse to not need a dedicated library, > if you're aiming for minimalism anyway. However a dedicated library > that uses that info, localizes it and exposes a very Cocoa-like API > does sound like a useful project! > > -- Marco > > >
