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[Martin Borho <martin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nekhelesh,

looks good. We're waiting for lat/long from the phone too.

One thing I've noticed when using OWM Api is that sometimes an empty 
response is delivered. But a direct retry will then work. I guess this 
only concerns JSON requests.

Cheers
Martin

Am Montag, den 29.04.2013, 18:01 +0200 schrieb Nekhelesh Ramananthan 
<krnekhelesh@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Martin,
>
> Thanks for the info. I updated my branch to get the Sunrise/Sunset
> information using the API using the XmlListModel. Currently however, 
> I
> am just giving it a static latitude and longitude info. Hopefully in
> the near future, the platform API will give me the actual lat,long of
> the phone which I can then plug in to get the info.
>
> Nekhelesh
>
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Martin Borho  wrote:
>  Hi Nekhelesh,
>
>  here's Martin from the weather app team. We haven't implemented
> Sunrise/Sunset by now, but after the last version update (2.5) of the
> Openweathermap API the sunrise/sunset data is available in the 
> current
> weather data and even in the searches. For example in this calls:
>
>  http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=London,uk&mode=xml
> [2]
>  http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?id=2172797&mode=xml
> [3]
>  
> http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/find?q=London&units=metric&mode=xml
> [4]
>
>  Hope this helps, I'll try to contact you on IRC later. My nick is
> m-b-o
>
>  Cheers
>  Martin
>
>  Am Montag, den 29.04.2013, 14:56 +0200 schrieb Nekhelesh Ramananthan
> :
>
>  Hi all,
>
>  I am currently working on implementing the Sunrise/Sunset feature 
> for
>  the clock app as per the clock app journey provided by the design
>  team. On talking to them, they mentioned that the weather app team
>  would also be showing the Sunrise/Sunset in the future and that it
>  would be best if both the clock app and the weather app obtain the
>  data from the same source (leading to consistency, uniformity etc).
>
>  I did have a peek at the weather app code and see that you obtain
> your
>  weather info from the openweathermap.org [6] [1] website. However, I
> was
>
>  wondering if you also get the Sunrise/Sunset info from them as well?
> I
>  also looked through the openweathermap online API, and could not 
> find
>  an API call for Sunrise/Sunset times.
>
>  Perhaps we can meet over IRC on ubuntu-touch to dicuss this and
>  implement it together. My IRC nick is nik90.
>
>  Kind regards,
>  Nekhelesh
>
>  Links:
>  ------
>  [1] http://openweathermap.org [7]
>
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> Links:
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> [1] mailto:martin@xxxxxxxxx
> [2]
> http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?q=London,uk&mode=xml
> [3] 
> http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?id=2172797&mode=xml
> [4]
>
> http://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/find?q=London&units=metric&mode=xml
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> [6] http://openweathermap.org
> [7] http://openweathermap.org
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