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On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Patrick L. Francis wrote: > > robb, > > chiz mentioned to me awhile ago that you have a decoder > setup to parse incoming text data by zone, that may be > modifiable to be used by state... long story short, I have > a few servers laying around that can be made productive... > my ultimate goal is to have an iwin-type interface with > the text data.. for example... here: > > http://weather.bgsu.edu/warnings.shtml > > wouldn't it be nice if a user could select their state, and > pull up associated warnings etc.. by state (in simple text format) > instead of the way i have it now, showing all warnings. > Patrick, chiz is talking about some THREDDS programs, yes there is a zone parser, etc. look at this page, bottom half. http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/projects/THREDDS/tech/server/motherlode.html here's the zone server: http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/cgi-bin/ZoneServer.pl?format=html&stn=COZ039&time=latest it wouldn't be hard to modify the perl code to do it by state. actually there's 2 programs, one for the pqact entry, using parser zoneWriter and another to take http requests ZoneServer.pl if your interested, the zoneWriter is part of the decoders release and a tar file could be made for the THREDDS servers. all the code is in perl forgot to mention, the perl servers do bound boxes already. robb... > if can help would be grateful :) > > --patrick > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================