HTC Home Weather plugin and GPS positioning

[Starfury]

Just a thought, but for those of us that have GPS receivers for our Hermes, is there a way of using the GPS coordinates to automatically update the location the weather application uses?

(Edit) Obviously I dont think this functionality will be built in but is it a development possibility?

[Elchinator]

Of course it's possible, all you need is a server which uses coordinates instead of postcodes oder city names. I think this would be even easier than having a whole database with names and places. But...

As the weather report usually isn't that exact to begin with, what sense does it make to have a report based on a precise GPS location? The weather report will be the same for a wide area and you should at least know, in which country you're in... :D

The only benefit would be, that you don't have to worry about settings. So maybe this will come, as soon as there is a "critical mass" of GPS capable mobiles around. ;)

[Starfury]

What I meant was it would be good if the weather app could use the GPS coordinates to automatically change the city/town that it is showing weather for to the one in its list you are closest to at the time.
For instance I live near Birmingham so when I am around there it would know this from the GPS coordinates then if I went to say Cardiff it would change the weather it was showing me from Birmingham to Cardiff so I dont have to goto the weather app select city and then find Cardiff and select it in the list and then refresh the weather. It would be automatic.

[Starfury]

So noone wants to develop a small app that reads the coordinates from a GPS receiver and works out the closest town from the list of towns/cities on the weather app in the HTC Home thing and then changes your locality to that in the program then?

:D

[NRGZ28]

It's a huge undertaking for a pretty useless thing... really. :rolleyes:

[Starfury]

OK fair enough, but the framework involved would have uses for other location based services...