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Augmenting your own web site with RDMP analysis
Once you have chosen a raingauge site from the clickable map of the
country, you are presented with a page of information which includes
a chart of the recent rainfall activity and some simple summary
statistics. Underneath this area of the web page is a URL, which you
can use at any time to obtain these data in isolation of the rest of
the RDMP. This allows you, for example, to right-click with the mouse
over this URL and select from the pop-up menu an option to download
the analysis to your own PC (this behaviour is dependent on the
browser you are using), so that you can subsequently
incorporate it into a document or report, or upload it to your own
web site.
Another use of this URL is that you can create an active link on your
web site to the RDMP. This way your web site will be automatically
updated whenever you add new data to the RDMP system (or when
somebody else adds data if you choose to link to their summary, for
example, if you want your web site to display a comparison between
your data and those from a nearby site).
You accomplish this by including image tags in your web site
specification. If you are using an HTML editor to accomplish this,
then select the option to insert an image into your web page, and
when you are prompted for a location (or source), type the URL
exactly as you saw it on the RDMP site.
If you built your web site by creating HTML by hand, then you need to
add a line like <img src="..."> into your page, where the ellipsis (...) should be replaced with
the URL advertised on the RDMP site.
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