maybe you could skip the complete db and make a dynamic kml layer (by using a php file that outputs xml) in openlayers
Rob 2009/8/20 Peter Körner <osm-li...@mazdermind.de> > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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