2009-03-09, 09:22 PM
I really like the Weather Plug-in. I certainly can use it the way that it is right now. But here are a few ideas that I think would improve the weather plug-in.
If you're like me, you live in an area where the weather services usually only provide a simple radar image of your state (or half of your state) that shows about a 200 mile range. That can be a two hour period in many instances. To get a complete idea of what may be coming within the next 24 hours or so, you need to add several more radar sites.
I live in Minnesota and I currently have the weather plugin set up with radar stations to cover: north and south of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and eastern Colorado (weather in Minnesota rarely comes from the east). Along with the radar data, the plugin also downloads the complete forecast information for each of these locations. I would like the weather plugin to limit its data from other locations to just radar images. I would also like to see this radar data on a composite image that comprises all the land within my selected radar image (instead of having to key from radar site to radar site to get the information from all the sites).
Similarly, I would like to see temperature and current condition (rain, cloudy, sun) for some selectable cities within a selectable map area. (for me, that would be the entire state of Minnesota, and then show cities such as Minneapolis, St Paul, Rochester, Albert Lea, Duluth, Fargo, Grand Forks, International Falls, and my home city).
I certainly can use the plug-in the way it is, but in this day of having live weather images that you can zoom in and pan around on, I don't know why the GBPVR plug-in would want to settle for something less.
Thanks
CC
If you're like me, you live in an area where the weather services usually only provide a simple radar image of your state (or half of your state) that shows about a 200 mile range. That can be a two hour period in many instances. To get a complete idea of what may be coming within the next 24 hours or so, you need to add several more radar sites.
I live in Minnesota and I currently have the weather plugin set up with radar stations to cover: north and south of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and eastern Colorado (weather in Minnesota rarely comes from the east). Along with the radar data, the plugin also downloads the complete forecast information for each of these locations. I would like the weather plugin to limit its data from other locations to just radar images. I would also like to see this radar data on a composite image that comprises all the land within my selected radar image (instead of having to key from radar site to radar site to get the information from all the sites).
Similarly, I would like to see temperature and current condition (rain, cloudy, sun) for some selectable cities within a selectable map area. (for me, that would be the entire state of Minnesota, and then show cities such as Minneapolis, St Paul, Rochester, Albert Lea, Duluth, Fargo, Grand Forks, International Falls, and my home city).
I certainly can use the plug-in the way it is, but in this day of having live weather images that you can zoom in and pan around on, I don't know why the GBPVR plug-in would want to settle for something less.
Thanks
CC
