A friend of mine recently began using their data for a google gadget and had great things to say about AccuWeather. He said the developers were very helpful and responsive. It sounds like they really do have a lot of data; he was using their service to get local pollen counts.
How is the API for getting weather locations? Yahoo allows you to use zip codes, which is great for US locations, but their codes for international locations are difficult for users to figure out. AccuWeather sounds like a great choice to me, especially if we decide that the commercial issues will work out for us. - Jen On Feb 13, 2008 8:16 PM, Dustin S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have recently been in contact with AccuWeather.com to explore the > possibility of using their services for weather data. > > AccuWeather.com's services are used in one of the most popular Firefox > add-ons: ForecastFox. If you are unfamiliar with AccuWeather you can visit > http://www.accuweather.com/ > > AccuWeather.com's people have been very friendly and nice to work with and > have setup an XML weather service for uPortal to use in the weather portlet. > An example: > http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/weather-data.asp?location=16803&metric=1 > > Use of their service in the weather portlet would require an AccuWeather > logo and a link back to their site. The feed would be available without > permission for all non-commercial users assuming they retain the logo and > link back. They would like any commercial users to contact AccuWeather for > permission to use the data. They said that commercial users are generally > not a concern unless they are a large commercial user that could cause an > overload to their servers. > > AccuWeather has *extensive* international coverage of weather as well as > *extensive > *weather data and they seem to be very willing to work with us. > > I would really like to use AccuWeather's service but I'm not sure the > commercial aspects would be acceptable to have this portlet included in UP3 > hence the reason for this post. > > What does everyone else think? > > -- > You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev > > -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - "Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way!" April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html You are currently subscribed to uportal-dev@lists.ja-sig.org as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
