Milos Rancic wrote:
And, also, we have to talk about needs for automation
here. Here are some
ideas:
- Fully global weather. It is possible, I started to do something, but
there is a lot of work to be done.
A lot of how weather is implemented will depend on how we choose to present
it. At the moment we've just the global map with only temperatures. It, to
start with, would be a huge improvement if the map can be clicked on to
bring up a map of one of the continents/regions with additional data. That
could be on a page of its own with capital city conditions detailed in text
underneath. Taking into account the size of Asia might mean we need futher
drilldown from that.
- Exchange rates. I finished the most of the job.
I've done work on financial software for business in the past, how are you
organising the data? Have you selected a base currency and stored all rates
from it to other currencies? Either USD or EUR for that, then to get from
any currency to any other currency you have two conversions unless one is
the base. From these results you could build a table onto a country portal
listing the country's currency and rate to a variety of other currencies.
I've also dealt with the software side of transitioning from a national
currency to EUR, so if you've any questions on that.
- Goods prices at stock markets (we should analyze the
situation).
[[Portal:Business knowledge]] going to:
[[Wikinews:Business LSE]]
[[Wikinews:Business NYSE]]
[[Wikinews:Business NASDAQ]]
...
Do we have anyone who tracks anything on the stock market could detail what
information would be useful? In the cases here I believe the data isn't
copyrightable, but the presentation may be. Thus we may have to work out our
own way of presenting the information. These will be pages where tables of
data will be presented, presumably with some in expand/collapse boxes to
keep the initial presentation reasonable. People who are interested in that
will either spend a minute looking up one detail or ages reading quite a bit
out of the data.
An example of how you could show the NYSE 100 is in a table with alternating
shaded lines to ease reading across the data.
Brian McNeil