I don't see a logo or link back as a problem. Since our primary focus is higher
education, I don't see the fact that commercial users need to contact
AccuWeather as a problem. From the sounds of it, this seems like a good option.
It would be nice to see if this portlet could be implemented in a way that one
could fairly easily plug in alternative weather feeds if they were concerned
about this.
My two cents,
JimH
on 2/13/2008 7:16 PM Dustin S. said the following:
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
<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?
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