Another pipes mashup - activities in Warkwickshire based on weather

[Owen Stephens]

Another 'just for fun' mashup - this one takes weather forecasts from the BBC (via RSS) and combines it with the data feeds of the county parks and museums and galleries, then outputs a combined list of these, filtered to show only outdoor activities that are in sunny areas (according to the forecast) and only shows indoor activities in areas where rain is forecast

http://pipes.yahoo.com/ostephens/3cf4648ddea115a6c02474c8553db2c9

It doesn't work as well as I'd hope to be honest:

The pipes seem a bit flaky - sometimes the weather isn't retrieved successfully resulting in events randomly failing to display
It would be nice to include items from the 'events' feed but there's no way I can tell to relate items in this feed to the weather
The BBC RSS feed for weather only gives the forecast for 3 days - so you can only go up to the day after tomorrow
I'm relying on the textual description of the weather in the BBC RSS feed - and I don't know what all the possible values are - I know it can sometimes contain the term 'sunny' and sometimes 'rain' - and that's about it - at the moment (for example) my pipe wouldn't pick up on the term 'Scattered Showers' - and I've no idea if the BBC would ever include such a description in their feeds and I can't find a list of the possible descriptions

Anyway - just sometime to look at (and at the moment I should be happy to say you'll find the weather means that outdoor activities are recommended!)

Owen

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