My Whishlist:
- a parsing part and database which is able to parse data directly from the web (mostly xml) from public and comercial feeds, homogenize it and save it temporarely in a database. The database should be extendable for additional data sets in the future like geo code, tides data o.e.
- a modul or/and a set of configurable replacement tags which shows weather data in different compositions as html formatted text (f.e. via templates) and also as rendered graphics, (example temperature graph of the last 10 days), or better a symbolic cloud cover rendered in to a relevant google or other map.
Some ideas APIs or code which seems to me a good starting point:
The YR.NO with a great and free data service http://code.google.com/p/yrno/
The NOAA with many free data feeds
The Google weather API
(yahoo, weather.com and other comercial xml-data providers ar enot desired because to restricive in use)
P.S. i would be more interested in a really outstanding realisation than in a cheap one, but also depends on common interest ...