Sunday, January 25, 2009

Linking Web weather Data to a PIS

Last lesson we learnt about linking data from a web site to our Public Information system.

We used Webquerry and linked data to our PIS which we saved in excell and called it

Importing Web Data.

We imported the file blackpoll and formated the worksheet.


Today we are going to do the following
-Open the excell File.
-import the other likn i gave on santiego, California.
Karan and Keshni may help others with URL
Link it to the same excell file but in a different worksheet names PIS2

Save the file

-Check if the data in the blackpool worsheet has changed.
-Write your comments.
-Go to web query and click update.
-Check if the data has changed.
-Write our comments
-Repeat for the PIS2 worksheet.

-Discuss the advantages of linking a PIS with a website.

Send the comments and the discusion in a word file named ImportingWEBdata

Your assingment will be marked under criteria A Investigation.
Send it to gioko@akam.ac.ke

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