Australian Weather Web Services

Hi, We have a requirement to retrieve weather information on a daily basis for several Australian locations and was wondering what Web Services others may have had some success with - free would be preferred - but being a commercial requirement our clients would be prepared to pay a modest fee.

RE: Australian Weather Web Services

Hi Steven, If you're looking for observational data then the BoM provides free data in a variety of formats. Here's Adelaide in JSON format: http://www.bom.gov.au/fwo/IDS60901/IDS60901.94675.json. Does that help? Cheers. James. From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozd

RE: Australian Weather Web Services

Thanks James, I tried the url and it returned JSON file OK - would prefer XML so tried changing the extension to .xml - but that did not work - but at least now I have a starting point & can start doing some reading - thanks for your help Regards, Steven Parish Software Architect | BusinessCra

Re: Australian Weather Web Services

With regard to weather sources in general, I've found international sources don't seem to have accurate weather data for Australia. In particular, I'm referring to apps/widgets on my phone. I no longer use anything that doesn't use BoM as it's source. With that in mind, I'd suggest comparing the

Re: Australian Weather Web Services

Hi Steven, You should be able to use something like JSON.NET (http://json.codeplex.com/) to convert the JSON file to XML see the documentation - http://james.newtonking.com/projects/json/help/index.html?topic=html/ConvertingJSONandXML.htm Regards, William On 28 November 2012 09:17, Steven Pari

Re: Australian Weather Web Services

+1 this. I've had home weather reports (what it is, not what they forecast) that vary a lot from reality. On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:31 AM, David Richards < ausdot...@davidsuniverse.com> wrote: > With regard to weather sources in general, I've found international > sources don't seem to have accu

RE: Australian Weather Web Services

This page is useful, for BOM weather data services in general. The XML Schemas are also available via a link at that page. _ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...