Re: [backstage] Weather Feeds: these are NOT covered under the backstage terms, please do NOT use them.

2006-07-28 Thread dotBen (aka Ben Metcalfe)
Hello all, Kim's right, these feeds should be used outside the BBC's site and from that perspective, in the morning after the night before, I realise I probably shouldn't have posted my previous email. I would point out that all I did was pull the urls out of the javascript on the BBC News

RE: [backstage] Weather Feeds: these are NOT covered under the backstage terms, please do NOT use them.

2006-07-28 Thread Kim Plowright
Kim's right, these feeds should be used outside the BBC's site and from that perspective, Freudian slip, Ben? :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dotBen (aka Ben Metcalfe) Sent: 28 July 2006 10:58 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject:

Re: [backstage] Weather Feeds: these are NOT covered under the backstage terms, please do NOT use them.

2006-07-28 Thread dotBen (aka Ben Metcalfe)
yes, sorry. they SHOULDN'T be used outside the BBC. On 28/07/06, Kim Plowright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kim's right, these feeds should be used outside the BBC's site and from that perspective, Freudian slip, Ben? :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [backstage] Finally, that bloody BBC Weather feed - here it is...

2006-07-28 Thread Oliver Cole
Odd, considering we were like the second place they rolled out the maps? Oli On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 21:11 +0100, Michael Pritchard wrote: On 27/07/06, Phil Winstanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Google Geocoding system is pretty crap - it finds Paris but not London

Re: [backstage] Finally, that bloody BBC Weather feed - here it is...

2006-07-28 Thread James Mastros
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 10:04:09PM +0100, Oliver Cole wrote: Odd, considering we were like the second place they rolled out the maps? Oli I suspect they have four seperate contracts with their upstream data providers: US, UK, JP, everywhere else. The US and everywhere else providers allow for

RE: [backstage] Weather Feeds: these are NOT covered under the backstage terms, please do NOT use them.

2006-07-28 Thread Gordon Joly
At 17:41 +0100 28/7/06, Ian Forrester wrote: Can I also point out that Weather.com and Yahoo both provide RSS feeds and a API for those dying to know what the weather will be ;) http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/index.html Like Ben said, please be patient. There are lots of data which we