Weather Comparision Tool
June 29th, 2008Recently I create a weather comparision tool for my girlfriends site and hobby. The purpose is to compare the tempature of two different locations over the 7 day forecast to determine if it’s safe to ship tempature sensitive material such as live animals (Crest Geckos in my girlfriends case). The Weather Comparision Tool at crownjewelreptiles.com.
The Weather Comparison Tool is a mash up that uses Google Maps API and weather data from NOAA. Google maps is used to search for the location and get the latitube and longitube needed by NOAA to get a forecast for that area. Also Google Maps gives a visual reference of the location so the user may verify the weather data is referring to the correct location. Other technologies used are CakePHP as the framework and jQuery as the JavaScript library. CakePHP web services makes it incredibly easy to make a JSON responses for jQuery to request (or any thing else that can handle JSON responses).
Still need to test the tool in various browsers and refactor the JavaScript after that I’ll write a more in depth post with examples and code snippets.