simonorono
commented
8 years ago Same problem. Don't know how to make the applet display the radar map for my city (Maracaibo/Venezuela). Help contents are not particularly helpful.
Open bthylafh opened 8 years ago
simonorono
commented
8 years ago Same problem. Don't know how to make the applet display the radar map for my city (Maracaibo/Venezuela). Help contents are not particularly helpful.
The default radar maps in Weather Report applet are sometimes inappropriate. For example, the Springfield, MO radar map shows Springfield at top-center instead of the center of the map, which often doesn't show what is up-wind. While it's possible to specify a custom radar map instead, finding a suitable one online is difficult because the easily-found ones tend to require Javascript.
I propose that a good fix might be to add a configuration option to use a different city's radar map. In my Springfield, MO example I think the Kansas City map is more appropriate, so it'd be nice if I could choose to display that map instead.
Alternatively, perhaps the applet could explain how to pull the desired map from the source (which appears to be weather.com) so we could find the URL ourselves, or perhaps the custom field could be auto-populated with the URL for the current location's default radar map.