Idea for weather application - Windows Mobile Apps and Games

Hi folks,
I have developed some applications for Pocket PC already, but now I have an idea, where my knowledge is not enough.
It is yet another today plugin for displaying weather data.
I have searched lots of differentprograms and plugins to display weather data and forecasts on the today screen, but none of them fits my needs.
I think of an application which can do the following:
A Today plugin that show a city, the actual temperature and a forecast of the next days in one line.
When tapping an icon left of the city you get a fullscreen applicationwith more options
When tapping the city, you get detailed information about the city (GPS-position, height, links to google-maps, links to wikipedia and so on)
When tapping the temperature you get a screen with actual weather data, temperature, wind, pressure, clouds, rain, snow. Also a history of the last 24 hours for the temperature (a small graph) to see when it was coldest and hottest the last 24 hours. I need this to see if I have to get up a bit earlier because the streets and my car may be frozen. The actual temperature right now is not enough for me.
If you tap on a forecast icon you get a detailed forecast for the selected day.
The options screen lets you select another city for the today plugin, manage your list of cities and connects withyour GPS. This way you can add the place where you actually are as a city for the today-plugin.
Furthermore you can display how far away from your location the next weather station is. I think this could be useful to know how accurate the data is. It is a difference if the next weather station is 100m away or 10 km.
You can also open another screen, where you can see your actual GPS position, heading, speed, travelled miles, average and maximum speed and the actual weather at your location. This way when driving my car, I know the temperature outside. Or when walkingin the mountains I have the forecast for the next hours.
Of course there are some settings screens and so on. Maybe I can even display actual satelite pictures.
I have found almost every of these functionalities in the programs I have tested, but not all funtions in one application. And some functions did not work in some of these applications.
However my knowledge of programming is not good enough to do this application alone.
Maybe there are some developers out there who like the idea and we can do a project together?
I have lots of more ideas what to do with such an application.
Anybody want to help?
greetings
Jürgen

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