Unlocking access to Open-Meteo fame

[amotl]

Hi there,

@patrick-zippenfenig is incredibly busy on Open-Meteo, and I just discovered OpenmeteoPy by @m0rp43us. Kudos for your excellent and paramount work in the area of unlocking and refining raw public data.

I wonder if it makes any sense to work on stacking those packages, by leveraging Open-Meteo within Wetterdienst, and then wrapping all up into a submodule for the Deutschland package, alongside its Deutschland dwd-api submodule.

It could be a matter of some smart glue code, or it could be a matter of complete and utter nonsense. In any case, I wanted to dump that idea here, in order to check if that would resonate with somebody else.

With kind regards,
Andreas.

[amotl]

@m0rp43us: I see that OpenmeteoPy is a effectively an API wrapper, but does not sport a CLI interface yet. That's fine.

So, in order to put an actionable item here, and in order to ask the community about whether that would make sense, I could imagine a benefit by unlocking the corresponding resources through Wetterdienst's CLI subsystem, if that would fit.

@patrick-zippenfenig: Do you know about any other CLI programs for the Open-Meteo API other than Weather-Cli, which you listed on the README? Obviously, we are not aiming to reinvent the wheel, but rather to combine components reasonably, that's why I am asking to prevent us exploring into the wrong directions.

[m0rp43us]

Hello @amotl ,

Thabk you fir your interest

Indeed a cli interface is genuinly a good idea.
I might create a separate Librairy for that matter.

OFC any help is welcome.

[patrick-zippenfenig]

@amotl thanks for the initiative! I have noticed the Wetterdienst package while researching DWD MOSMIX. In a distant future, I am also interested in integration station data.

A CLI integration could a good fit and enables users to compare gridded weather model data with station data. Existing CLI integrations only visualise current weather conditions and a 7 day weather forecast.

One potential issue is the variety of available weather variables, models and options. This can be challenging to document and understand by users. Although only a selection of 10-20 weather variables will be interesting for most users. On the technical side, I do not see any issues.