HAMweather Overview |
HAMweather is a FREE weather software package that can be used to add custom weather capabilities to your web site. These added weather forecasting abilities will provide the user interactivity you need to keep your web visitors coming back. HAMweather can be installed on a Unix, Windows NT or a Windows 95/98 web server with minimal effort. HAMweather also adds the ability for ISP's to set up a single installation and have multiple clients create their own custom weather site.
HAMweather comes in three flavors: HAMweather Pro, Standard and Lite. You can choose the version that best suits your needs and requirements and remember it doesn't matter which version you choose, they are all FREE.
HAMweather Standard, is the base weather system allowing users to get weather forecasts for the US and canada, current conditions for cities through out the world, clickable state image maps.
HAMweather Pro, provides all the features in HAMweather Standard and also allows for additional features such as dynamic forecast, summary and warning map generation.
HAMweather Lite, is a stripped down version of HAMweather Standard. This version only allows for the basic use of fetching weather forecasts for the US and canada. This version is useful for sites that do not have the space or need for all of the HAMweather features.
To expand the capabilities of HAMweather further there are several FREE add-ons that may be installed. Such as HWemail, HWscroll, and HWimage.
How does HAMweather work? |
HAMweather allows users to obtain weather forecasts and other various weather information using a web interface.
When the user requests weather information, HAMweather will obtain the text data, as needed, from the National Weather Service (NWS), the Interactive Weather Information Network (IWIN) and the Environmental Canada. The raw data is then parsed, cleaned up and presented to the user in a nice, clean customized web page.
You can easily customize HAMweather by editing html templates. Thus, allowing you to have complete control over the look and feel of your weather site.
HAMweather Standard Features |
The following are a few of the many features included in HAMweather 2.0:
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Additional HAMweather Pro Features |
* Cities available on US forecast map are limited to those included in the NWS IWIN's National Travelers Forecast.
** Cities available on US Summary map are limited to those included in the NWS IWIN's National Summary.
Additional HAMweather Pro Requirements |
HAMweather Pro needs the same requirements as HAMweather with one exception. The Perl GD.pm module must be installed on your server for the dynamic maps to be generated. If you are not sure if the Perl GD.pm module is installed on your server then contact your system administrator or use the Pre-install Test script included in the HAMweather distribution.
NOTE: GIF support is in GD.pm 1.19 and earlier. PNG support only in GD.pm 1.20 through 1.25. PNG and JPEG support in GD.pm 1.26. Unix users can download gd.pm from CPAN at: http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/GD/ NT users should have your Provider install the module via the Perl package manager (PPM).
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