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NAME

Weather::MOSMIX - Reader for MOSMIX weather forecast files

SYNOPSIS

$mosmix->locations

Lists all locations with their names and longitude/latitude. If a longitude / latitude pair is passed in, the list is ordered by the distance from that position.

SETUP

  1. Install the module

  2. Create a directory for the database

        mkdir ~/weather ; cd ~/weather
  3. Create the database

        mosmix-import.pl --create
  4. Set up a cron job to fetch the MOSMIX forecast

        01 6,12,18,0 * * * cd /home/corion/weather; mosmix-import.pl
        15 6,12,18,0 * * * cd /home/corion/weather; mosmix-purge.pl
  5. Query the current forecast

        cd /home/corion/weather; mosmix-query.pl

SEE ALSO

German Weather Service

https://opendata.dwd.de/weather/

https://opendata.dwd.de/weather/local_forecasts/mos/MOSMIX_S/all_stations/kml/

Other Weather APIs

https://openweathermap.org/api - international, signup required

https://www.weatherbit.io/api - international, signup required

https://developer.accuweather.com/ - international, signup required

https://darksky.net/dev - paid, international, signup required

http://api.weather2020.com/ - international, signup required

Overview of Open Data

https://index.okfn.org/place/de/weather/ https://index.okfn.org/place/us/weather/ https://index.okfn.org/place/lv/weather/ https://index.okfn.org/place/cy/weather/

Cyprus forecast

http://www.moa.gov.cy/moa/ms/ms.nsf/DMLforecast_general_gr/DMLforecast_general_gr?opendocument

Icons

https://github.com/zagortenay333/Tempestacons

https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=weather

https://undraw.co/search

https://coreui.io/icons/

REPOSITORY

The public repository of this module is https://github.com/Corion/weather-mosmix.

SUPPORT

The public support forum of this module is https://perlmonks.org/.

BUG TRACKER

Please report bugs in this module via the RT CPAN bug queue at https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Weather-MOSMIX or via mail to www-Weather-MOSMIX@rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

Max Maischein corion@cpan.org

COPYRIGHT (c)

Copyright 2019-2020 by Max Maischein corion@cpan.org.

LICENSE

This module is released under the same terms as Perl itself.