[Lcdproc] My LCD client project

[Ethan Dicks]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:58 PM,  <joris at robijn.net> wrote:
>> Is there a "standard" weather format that I should follow, or that other
>> weather sources use, so I can be closer to a standard (and re-use my
>
> Hi,
>
> There is standard called METAR you you might want to follow. There is a
> lcdproc metar client avaialable somewhere, that you could use to read
> your own wheather station's data...

I've worked on Geo::METAR.  The latest version should handle non-US
temps/distances/etc., but the years-old version handles US sites
pretty well.

Metars are a method of transmitting observations - it's a highly-coded
method (thus the use of Geo::METAR) of describing temps, winds,
precipitation, and "special" comments.  There's already a client for
grabbing Metars for established stations, and I've tweaked on it quite
a bit to handle non-US locations, but still have a bit of work to make
it sharable.

If you want to create an output stream that others can read (manually
or with something like Geo::METAR), Metars are a known format for
publishing formatted weather data.  If you are just trying to format
your own local data for LCDproc, it's probably overkill.

-ethan