Spotter Network Location Widget to Embed on Website?

[JohnHuntington]

I'd like to have my spotter network location available on a map to embed on a page on my website when I'm chasing, so that non weather-weenie friends and family can see where I am without looking at GRLevel or Radarscope or something.

I found this but couldn't get it to work:
http://www.stormchase.com/maps/spotter-network.html
When I put in my spotter ID (after enabling the network as indicated in the instructions) I just got a blank page. I contacted the site owner but I have a feeling they may be out chasing

Does an alternative to this exist? Someone want $20 or something for some HTML code I can paste into my website? I head back out memorial day weekend so I'd love to get this up and running before then.

Thanks!

John

 

[StephenHenry]

Hey John, I've set something similar up because my parents would worry about where we were. Feel free to copy my simple page: http://www.wxlog.com/livecam.html. It does end up being a little more involved that you might think, though.

The script sn.js does the work, parsing the xml from spotternet, adding a marker at the parsed location, overlaying some basic radar and warning layers to the map. The only thing not in the html or sn.js you would need is a cron job for automatically pulling your location from spotternet every few minutes.
I have a cron job that runs every 5 minutes that kicks off the command "/usr/bin/wget -q -O - http://www.spotternetwork.org/pro/feed/534102ce2052d/gm.php > /home1/wxlogcom/public_html/scripts/tracker.xml" - your spotternet link would be different based on your SN id.

 

[JohnHuntington]

Hey John, I've set something similar up because my parents would worry about where we were. Feel free to copy my simple page: http://www.wxlog.com/livecam.html. It does end up being a little more involved that you might think, though.

Thanks! I'm dm'ing you about this...

John