Category: Spotassist

Spot Assist reads weather data from various sources – NOAA, OpenWeatherMap etc. Parsers are implemented as separate Python programs. Python has an amazing capacity to work with XML, JSON and geo data.

Spot Assist mobile application requires weather data. There are many weather APIs, but they are targeted to a high-scale user, and quite expensive for a low-traffic consumer. At the same time, NOAA is a government project that has enough weather data for the task and it is free. All you need to do is learn…