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Data products and weather web page publishing information

Specifications updated

There are two ways to use MyWeather data products.
1. Use MyWeather weather web page publishing services. Using this option you may choose from a number of templates. Since MyWeather hosts the page, this option is very easy to implement. You are limited to the templates provided. Examples of templates are here.
2. Use data products to self-publish weather pages on your sites. This option requires the user to write XML out to a web page, usually accomplished by a set of light programming routines, and affords near-complete flexibility in layout, design, and data selection.

FTP and HTTP are the methods for retrieving data. Client pull from our FTP server is preferred.

HTTP weather data requests
Current weather conditions and forecast datasets are available for a large number of U.S. reporting locations each identified by a short (typically four characters) alphanumeric reporting station code. In addition, forecast data for these international cities is available. Data provided is always the most current available. Files are organized by reporting locations with each section identified by the station code. A time of manufacture is included in each dataset. This is expressed in local time relative to a single location of your choice. The time differential from GMT is included for verification.
The following links illustrate use of HTTP requests to get single location data for Madison, WI. There are a total of three datasets that can be queried. Current conditions and forecasts are selected by reporting location code. These URLs use mywx123456 as the siteID for illustration. You would substitute your siteID code when you use these URLs. Note: Zone forecasts are selected by the UGC code appropriate for the desired location.
You should request maps using URLs like this, substituting the desired map name in place of 'neast_radar' as needed, and your authentication code for 'mywx123456'. Note that each map comes in three flavors. DO NOT link directly to image files on our server! The underlying filenames will change from time to time.
Current conditions and five day forecast data weather condition codes are used to select an appropriate icon for display. We have posted three sets of icons to use, or you may create your own. Each is contained in a separate folder on our FTP site.
Weather web page URLs
The following URLs are supported. Please note: we will continue to expand our offerings to provide access to other weather data not shown below. Your weather pages use your siteID code. For example: If your siteID is abcd123456 your main weather page URL will be http://wp.myweather.net/wp/?pub=abcd123456
Then you append a query string to select other pages and content.
Query Content
[no query info] Main forecast page for the reporting station associated with your site
&page=main&loc=[locationID] Full forecast page for the reporting station named with locationID
&page=city&loc=[locationID] Abbreviated forecast for the reporting station named with locationID
&page=city&loc=[locationID]&context=region Conditions and links for all reporting stations close to the station named with locationID
&page=search&loc=[postalCode]&context=state Conditions and links for all reporting stations in state named by the desired 2-character postalCode
&page=map&map=neast_sat Display named map 
<icon-select>1</icon-select>
Value Condition File Name
1 Clear clear.gif
2 Fair/haze fairhaze.gif
3 Partly cloudy partlycloudy.gif
4 Fog fog.gif
5 Drizzle drizzle.gif
6 Cloudy cloudy.gif
7 Windy windy.gif
8 Flurries flurries.gif
9 P/C showers pcshowers.gif
10 Rain rain.gif
11 T-storms tstorm.gif
12 P/C T-storms pctstorm.gif
13 Rain/snow mix rainsnowmix.gif
14 Freezing rain freezingrain.gif
15 Snow showers snowshowers.gif
16 Snow snow.gif

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