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Old 05-31-2007, 02:33 AM
wbsurfver@yahoo.com
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Default access ocean buoy readings from cell phone ...


I bought a samsung cell phone that can access wml type mobile
websites. I was thinking of setting up a free web site that you can go
to with a regular computer and set up a profile with just email/
password/state or province/country. From there you input the buoy
numbers into any number of buoy profiles, and you get a wml url page
that can be accessed from any phone that supports wml to see the
current buoy readings. I would store the readings in a database and
only screen scrape the actual buoys every hour as needed on demand.
Say you could create a buoy profile for Ventura CA. Then from a cell
phone you can see the buoys from that area. I was wondering if there'd
be much of an interest in a site like that and if the wml type cell
phone technology will be around for awhile ... ?

I've not quite seen a site like what I've described, though I have
seen marine forcasts and some similar things.

I've done some websites in ruby on rails and have figured out a good
way to scrape the buoys sites for the data.


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Old 06-01-2007, 05:55 PM
Mike G.
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Default Re: access ocean buoy readings from cell phone ...

On May 30, 10:33 pm, "wbsurf...@yahoo.com" <wbsurf...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I bought a samsung cell phone that can access wml type mobile
> websites. I was thinking of setting up a free web site that you can go
> to with a regular computer and set up a profile with just email/
> password/state or province/country. From there you input the buoy
> numbers into any number of buoy profiles, and you get a wml url page
> that can be accessed from any phone that supports wml to see the
> current buoy readings. I would store the readings in a database and
> only screen scrape the actual buoys every hour as needed on demand.
> Say you could create a buoy profile for Ventura CA. Then from a cell
> phone you can see the buoys from that area. I was wondering if there'd
> be much of an interest in a site like that and if the wml type cell
> phone technology will be around for awhile ... ?
>
> I've not quite seen a site like what I've described, though I have
> seen marine forcasts and some similar things.
>
> I've done some websites in ruby on rails and have figured out a good
> way to scrape the buoys sites for the data.


Maybe these guys can help...

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/dial.shtml

Mike G.


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