Re: Improving gweather

[John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>]

The new site weather.interceptvector.com offers much better coverage
of non-US cities than www.weather.com. I can tell you right away
that Kitchener, Ontario has a much better weather report on the new
site than the current gweather applet with weather.com. 

John
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 11:01:15AM -0500, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 10:57, Kevin Vandersloot wrote:
> > Hi All. In cvs HEAD I've put some changes to gweather applet to improve
> > it by fetching the forecast data from weather.interceptvector.com which
> > provides data in an xml format. 
> > 
> > The are a few problems (with the changes, but also with the applet as it
> > it now). First the person who runs the new service (Chris Petersen) only
> > has limited bandwidth. Second the data is gotten from the MSN site.
> > Current problems with gweather applet is that it steals data from
> > weather.com and the noaa site such that if those web sites alter their
> > html at all, then gweather will no longer work (and this has happened
> > already in the past).
> > 
> > I'm soliciting suggestions on the subject. Could we possibly consider
> > helping Chris by providing some more bandwidth to host
> > interceptvector.com?
> 
> Has anyone talkted to weather.com about providing the information in a
> more standard feed format?  I'd think they'd agree to allow it, so long
> as the applet contains ample notice that the information is provided by
> weather.com and contains a web-link and all that - we use a similar
> service already provided by weather.com for our Intranet portal.
> 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Kevin
> > 
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