Pack: Find elevation given city and country names

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This screenshot shows what output of the "Elevation plot..." workflow looks like.

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this screenshot shows the entire workflow, with nested workflows expanded

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Functionally identical to the original. I tried to upload a version with annotation, but somehow the notes didn't make it to myExperiment.

From the prior verion:

This workflow accepts city and country names as user-supplied input. These value are supplied to the GetWeather webservice (http://www.webservicex.net/globalweather.asmx?WSDL), which returns an XML record of location and weather info for each recognized city. (See the uploaded photo "weather example")

The XML returned from GetWeather is then searched using regular expressions for the geogrpahic coordinates. Because the  coordinates are returned in a different format (with a hyphen) than is required for the next web service (with a period), a lot string-wrangling needs to happen in order to format the coordinates as is needed while not loosing values along the way. All of this happens in the two additional workflows embedded in the main workflow, and which have been uploaded with the titles "latitudewithbeans" and longitudewithbeans". The names reference the fact that in each workflow netbeans scripts had to be edited in order to produce the required output.

From the two nested workflows, the output is two lists - one of latitude coordinates, one of longitude coordinates, both ordered to reflect the order in which the cities were originally entered. These lists are then supplied as inputs for a REST Service that I've configured to use the STRM webservice from geonames.org to fetch an elevation for supplied latitude and longitude coordinates (http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html#srtm3).

Because I've designed this workflow to pass blank values when cities are not recognized, another customized regular expression matching beanshell must follow the REST Service to catch any errors thrown from blank input values. Now, errors default to an elevation of -450, lower than any actual city on earth.

Finally, elevations are output onto a bar chart which is labelled with the appropriate city names. Negative elevations print as an elevation equal to zero.

!! Rserve is required for this workflow. !!

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This workflow takes in a string value or list of values and pulls out latitude coordinates formatted as ##-##(N or S) using the following regular expression: \d\d-\d\d(N|S). The coordinates are processed and formatted to be in the form required by the web service used in my "Elevation plot" workflow.

This workflow contains primarily string manipulation. For many of the text and list services used, the beanshell script needed to be modified in order to produce the formatting I required. All modified services contain documentation.

This workflow is very similar to my "Longitude with beanshell" workflow, which performs similar manipulations between longitude coordinate formats.

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This workflow takes in a string value or list of values and pulls out longitude coordinates formatted as ###-##(N or S) using the following regular expression: \d\d\d-\d\d(E|W). The coordinates are processed and formatted to be in the form required by the web service used in my "Elevation plot" workflow.

This workflow primarily contains string manipulation. For many of the text and list services used, the beanshell script needed to be modified in order to produce the formatting I required. All modified services contain documentation.

This workflow is very similar to my "Latitude with Netbeans" workflow, which performs similar manipulations between latitude coordinate formats.

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This screenshot shows the format of the weather and location XML output by the GetWeather service.

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This screenshot shows the "Elevation plot..." workflow with the nested workflows compact.