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Spot Assist Weather Collector

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by

Andrey Kan
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Spot Assist requires weather data.

  1. WINDALOFT(wind at various altitudes)
  2. METAR(current weather)
  3. TAF(forecast)

All these are available at NOAA. Surprisingly, TAF doesn’t provide a temperature, so there is another data source: free API from OpenWeatherMap

Parsers are implemented as separate Python programs. Python has an amazing capacity to work with XML, JSON and geo data.