BBC Weather Applet?

I know we talked about screen scraping from the BBC weather
website on
this list before and that's obviously a suboptimal solution.
However,
now that there are RSS feeds available from
bbc.co.uk/weather, does
anyone know of any panel applet that uses them? Is it
possible to
persuade the standard weather panel applet to read them?

The closest weather source to me I can find is Heathrow,
which is some
30 miles away. It'd be nice to be able to use the BBC
sources, as I
assume they'd be more accurate.

Regards,

Thomas

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> I know we talked about screen scraping from the BBC
weather website on
> this list before and that's obviously a suboptimal
solution. However,
> now that there are RSS feeds available from
bbc.co.uk/weather, does
> anyone know of any panel applet that uses them? Is it
possible to
> persuade the standard weather panel applet to read
them?

Is there a standard for weather over RSS? Or could it be
that we could  
push for the bbc format to be ratified as a pseudo
standard?

It would be far better to extend weather over RSS to a world
wide  
standard solution then make it a part of gnome weather
applet etc... I  
think locking it down to just the bbc and just the UK (or
however far  
the bbc weather extends).

> The closest weather source to me I can find is
Heathrow, which is some
> 30 miles away. It'd be nice to be able to use the BBC
sources, as I
> assume they'd be more accurate.

I know this same issue, the closest to me is heathrow also,
which is  
about 100 miles away!

K,

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On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 11:15 +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote:
> > I know we talked about screen scraping from the
BBC weather website on
> > this list before and that's obviously a suboptimal
solution. However,
> > now that there are RSS feeds available from
bbc.co.uk/weather, does
> > anyone know of any panel applet that uses them? Is
it possible to
> > persuade the standard weather panel applet to read
them?
> 
> Is there a standard for weather over RSS? Or could it
be that we could  
> push for the bbc format to be ratified as a pseudo
standard?
> 
> It would be far better to extend weather over RSS to a
world wide  
> standard solution then make it a part of gnome weather
applet etc... I  
> think locking it down to just the bbc and just the UK
(or however far  
> the bbc weather extends).

I tried getting the widget out of the page, but it seems
that it's not
exported yet. Hopefully it will be in the future, as I want
to see the
weather for Guildford, not Gatwick or Heathrow ;)

The RSS feed is pretty unusable (you'd need to parse/hack
the data from
it), let's hope for a separate widget soon, so I can embed
it in my
netvibes page.

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On 18 Dec 2007, at 11:24, Bastien Nocera wrote:

>
> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 11:15 +0000, Karl Lattimer
wrote:
>>> I know we talked about screen scraping from the
BBC weather  
>>> website on
>>> this list before and that's obviously a
suboptimal solution.  
>>> However,
>>> now that there are RSS feeds available from
bbc.co.uk/weather, does
>>> anyone know of any panel applet that uses them?
Is it possible to
>>> persuade the standard weather panel applet to
read them?
>>
>> Is there a standard for weather over RSS? Or could
it be that we  
>> could
>> push for the bbc format to be ratified as a pseudo
standard?
>>
>> It would be far better to extend weather over RSS
to a world wide
>> standard solution then make it a part of gnome
weather applet  
>> etc... I
>> think locking it down to just the bbc and just the
UK (or however far
>> the bbc weather extends).
>
> I tried getting the widget out of the page, but it
seems that it's not
> exported yet. Hopefully it will be in the future, as I
want to see the
> weather for Guildford, not Gatwick or Heathrow ;)
>
> The RSS feed is pretty unusable (you'd need to
parse/hack the data  
> from
> it), let's hope for a separate widget soon, so I can
embed it in my
> netvibes page.

Just filled out the satisfaction survey on the site and
hinted at us  
adding it into GNOME. maybe when they read it they'll help
us out 

K,

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On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 11:15 +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote:
> > I know we talked about screen scraping from the
BBC weather website on
> > this list before and that's obviously a suboptimal
solution. However,
> > now that there are RSS feeds available from
bbc.co.uk/weather, does
> > anyone know of any panel applet that uses them? Is
it possible to
> > persuade the standard weather panel applet to read
them?
> 
> Is there a standard for weather over RSS? Or could it
be that we could  
> push for the bbc format to be ratified as a pseudo
standard?
> 
> It would be far better to extend weather over RSS to a
world wide  
> standard solution then make it a part of gnome weather
applet etc... I  
> think locking it down to just the bbc and just the UK
(or however far  
> the bbc weather extends).

Well, it seems the "Current Observations" feed is
just an RSS file with
a single item, with most of the data in the description
field. Not all
together ideal, but I bet with some Python trickery it would
be easy to
do something with.

I think getting a world wide standard for weather feeds and
then
persuading the BBC to agree to using it may be a little
outside the time
scale I was hoping for!

Regards,

Thomas

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On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 11:11 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote:
> I know we talked about screen scraping from the BBC
weather website on
> this list before and that's obviously a suboptimal
solution. However,
> now that there are RSS feeds available from
bbc.co.uk/weather, does
> anyone know of any panel applet that uses them? Is it
possible to
> persuade the standard weather panel applet to read
them?
> 
> The closest weather source to me I can find is
Heathrow, which is some
> 30 miles away. It'd be nice to be able to use the BBC
sources, as I
> assume they'd be more accurate.

Clearly an excellent reason why everyone should move to
Bishop
Stortford.  Stansted airport is about three miles away. 

Ross
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On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 11:43 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> 
> Clearly an excellent reason why everyone should move to
Bishop
> Stortford.  Stansted airport is about three miles away.

> 

But unfortunately so is ESSEX.

  == Matthew

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On 18 Dec 2007, at 11:58, Matthew Allum wrote:

>
> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 11:43 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
>>
>> Clearly an excellent reason why everyone should
move to Bishop
>> Stortford.  Stansted airport is about three miles
away. 
>>
>
> But unfortunately so is ESSEX.

Glad someone said it!

K,

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On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 11:58 +0000, Matthew Allum wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 11:43 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> > 
> > Clearly an excellent reason why everyone should
move to Bishop
> > Stortford.  Stansted airport is about three miles
away. 
> > 
> 
> But unfortunately so is ESSEX.

We're keeping it quiet, but there are plans to build a 10
foot high
concrete wall along the border to keep the riff-raff out.

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On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 12:13 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 11:58 +0000, Matthew Allum
wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 11:43 +0000, Ross Burton
wrote:
> > > 
> > > Clearly an excellent reason why everyone
should move to Bishop
> > > Stortford.  Stansted airport is about three
miles away. 
> > > 
> > 
> > But unfortunately so is ESSEX.
> 
> We're keeping it quiet, but there are plans to build a
10 foot high
> concrete wall along the border to keep the riff-raff
out.
> 

It good to hear the county of Essex are doing this.

  == Matthew

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I can't say I've had the same trouble as others having their
weather 
locations far away from where they live. There's a Norwich
location on 
the current weather applet and it's mostly pretty accurate,
however it 
lacks a Forecast under the Details bit.

-Simon
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