[mapserver-users] MapServer + Weather Data

[Daryl Herzmann]

Hiya!

Firstly, MapServer and PHP mapscript are just great!  I have been 
attempting to get others to try out MapServer before buying commercial 
closed-source products.  Anyway, on to my questions.

There are two features within mapserver that I am curious about.

1.  Gridded data.  How can gridded datasets, which Meteorologists use all 
the time, be incorporated into MapServer?  Most of the datasets are in 
Grib format, but can be converted to netCDF.

2.  Station METAR plots.  Anybody done this? :)  Basically, a wind barb is 
plotted based on wind speed and direction.  A circle is plotted for sky 
cover.  Other text information is plotted around the circle.

Thanks for the info!
  Daryl