[Xastir] Weather Station

[Brian Koontz]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 09:32:16PM -0500, Dale Seaburg wrote:
> Now, for some help.  I want to be able to connect the weather data to  
> APRS via xastir *and* be able to do as I have in the past - log to  
> postgresql and be able to not just have a tty-style display of  
> weather data, but a gui with graphing capability of user-selected  
> weather data elements and date ranges.  That is my goal.
> 
> 1.  Is there anything available today to do close to what I want and  
> open-source?
> 
> 2.  If not, what would the guru's suggest as a good gui tool set to  
> use?  I don't need to be cross-platform, but I suppose it probably  
> ought to be a consideration, if others would like to use it.

I'm partial to Perl.  The GD::Graph module is quite
full-featured (http://gdgraph.com/samples.html).  Perl/Tk is a nice
GUI environment for rapid GUI prototyping.  The beauty of Perl is that
you can get things up and running rather quickly, and it's truly
cross-platform.  

  --Brian/WA3ITE