GeoNames Forum

Have you ever thought of adding a GRIB data webservice? I'm thinking of something where I could enter a lat/long, a MSL altitude, and you could give me back the forecast wind direction and speed.

Information on GRIB and where to get files is documented http://www.weathergraphics.com/da/doc/scr/GRIB%20data.htm

Hi Paul

I didn't know about GRIB before your posting. I will put it on the nice-to-have list.

There are two other weather related things already on the list.
1) TAF weather forecast
2) metar history. we have started building a history db beginning in July. This will allow to build a history weather service.
3) GRIB

Improvement of the Metar parser is also on the list. This parser looks quite interesting and seems to be actively developed: http://metaf2xml.sourceforge.net/

I cannot do everything at the same time. Which would be your priorities?

Best

Marc

marc wrote:

I cannot do everything at the same time. Which would be your priorities?

I would vote for TAF first, then GRIB. I don't think I need METAR history.

By the way, if I wanted to use this service in an iPhone app, could it use the free version, or would I have to get a subdomain so that all the app users would count as my quota?

You don't need a subdomain for ipone apps.

Marc

We are having problems to cope with the load and the number of request from mobile devices is increasing a lot, which means the limit per ip-address does not apply to them. We will have to introduce an application id to keep track of request per application instead of per ip-address.

Marc