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Alternatives to using BOM for data #144

Closed adamhsparks closed 1 year ago

adamhsparks commented 2 years ago

Queensland has a proper API that would allow us to access BOM data for point and even gridded data.

What say you, @HughParsonage and @jonocarroll? This would allow us to have access to the historical data. Not sure that it provides access to real-time though, so we would lose that functionality.

Should we pursue this capability?

jonocarroll commented 2 years ago

I was going to suggest that a package focused on SILO would be a good idea. Sure enough, there's already at least one package accessing this data! https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/cropgrowdays/vignettes/getting-weather-data.html (they even acknowledge bomrang there).

There's also https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SWTools/index.html

My guess is we could leverage some of this, or discuss collaborating on breaking out the silo-related functionality to a dedicated package which bomrang and the other packages could leverage. Perhaps the SILO team would also like to be involved (?).

adamhsparks commented 2 years ago

I've worked with Peter (one of the cropgrowdays authors), nice to see that bomrang was acknowledged.

I was thinking that bomrang already exists and has had facilities for fetching historical data, using SILO we could restore this functionality in a meaningful way for our users with the added value of some of the gridded data sets rather than a new package. But maybe a new one is the way to go and letting bomrang leverage it. From a DPIRD perspective, this would be beneficial as well.

jonocarroll commented 2 years ago

The silo-specific package would be a pure API wrapper. bomrang would then use that for it's specific purposes, but other packages could also call it.

adamhsparks commented 2 years ago

That’s what I’m thinking too.

DharmaDan commented 1 year ago

Hi @adamhsparks and @jonocarroll. I note that a year has passed since there was discussion here on alternatives, and i am still sorely missing being able to easily use bomrang to pull down historical Wx data from specific BOM (ahem, THE BUREAU) stations. Is there another solution or go-to package now? Thanks.

adamhsparks commented 1 year ago

Unfortunately BOM doesn’t seem interested in supporting any such solutions, so, no. Right now nothing exists yet. The discussed workarounds all have their own drawbacks.

DharmaDan commented 1 year ago

:( Oh well, we can live in hope.

Thanks for getting back to me Adam.