Re: BBC Weather Applet?

[Karl Lattimer <karl qdh org uk>]

> I know we talked about screen scraping from the BBC weather website on
> this list before and that's obviously a suboptimal solution. However,
> now that there are RSS feeds available from bbc.co.uk/weather, does
> anyone know of any panel applet that uses them? Is it possible to
> persuade the standard weather panel applet to read them?

Is there a standard for weather over RSS? Or could it be that we could  
push for the bbc format to be ratified as a pseudo standard?

It would be far better to extend weather over RSS to a world wide  
standard solution then make it a part of gnome weather applet etc... I  
think locking it down to just the bbc and just the UK (or however far  
the bbc weather extends).

> The closest weather source to me I can find is Heathrow, which is some
> 30 miles away. It'd be nice to be able to use the BBC sources, as I
> assume they'd be more accurate.

I know this same issue, the closest to me is heathrow also, which is  
about 100 miles away!

K,