xplanet can download cloud images and overlay them onto a map/globe http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/
it just needs an OSM world-map image in plate-carre format to use as the ground image, and you'd have a cloud map. On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Peter Körner<osm-li...@mazdermind.de> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk