Hi Peter, Randall, and WeatherCat fans,
Is there any sort of "data dictionary" or spec for the many and various data items offered by WeatherCat's several output mechanisms ? Could someone point me in right place to look.
. . . . . Hmm, could you make that question a little more vague? . . . Seriously, indeed WeatherCat has lots of data output mechanisms. For example, there are web tags that you find described in Appendix 4 of the WeatherCat manual. Another way to get at the WeatherCat data is through the AppleScript interface that is described in Appendix 1. A third way to get at the data is through the various report mechanisms. There is some information on these reports on page 113 of the current manual.
Yet another way is to access the data files themselves. WeatherCat stores data by default in text files that you'll find in this folder (following the normal UNIX file system convention:)
~/Library/WeatherCatDataThere isn't any documentation the file format that I can recall except that there is a header of comments at the top of each file that allows you to figure out what is going on.
Still another way to get access to all that data is to enable the SQL Driver. Then all the data would be stored in an SQL database that you could assess using standard database queries.
However, I'll bet you are asking this question because you have some project you'd like to accomplish using data. If it isn't a trade secret, giving us some idea of why you want the data for, that would really help us in giving you some suggestions on how to go about it.
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Of course, if you prefer . . . . you can always go about it . . . . da' hard way!!! Cheers, Edouard