On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 13:44 -0600, David Trowbridge wrote: > The weather applet uses the METAR format, which provides current > conditions reports for airports. The applet itself fetches data from a > number of different sources depending on where you're located. > > The analog of this is the TAF format, which provides airport forecasts. > Unfortunately, TAF doesn't contain temperature forecasts, since those > are relatively unimportant in the context of aircraft. > > I'm not sure about other countries adopting CCF. It was mandated to the > NWS stations that they provide it, but of course NOAA doesn't have > control over most countries. Because of this, I was going to implement > an abstract "source" class that gets passed a buffer from the web fetch > and provides a list of weather report structures containing the actual > data. Individual formats could then be accomodated with their own source > class and URI scheme. Is this acceptable? > sounds ok to me, given the different sources of weather forecasts, so yeah, having a generic class and custom classes inheriting from it for each source seems the way to go. -- Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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