Arggh... I hadn't seen the FAQ, fair enough on the adverts etc.
I understand you won't cover your costs, but I guess that isn't really the
issue with infringement etc.
I have in the past tried to put together various business plans involving
weather feeds and have been amazed at how much the Met charge. I do
understand they have massive costs themselves and are under consistent
pressure to no longer be a cost (like nearly all government/ex-government
bodies). Which is why I was surprised when there was mention of backstage
providing a weather feed.
Is there any news on that?
Cheers,
James
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From: "Jason Cartwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 3:38 PM
Subject: RE: [backstage] MetaWeather: Weather Mashup
Hey James,
Thanks!
Currently most of the data I'm crunching has more than just the wind
info in. Although I suppose there is nothing to stop me adding sources
that only contain this information. I didn't think of that, I'll give it
a go :-)
I'll try and add some other locations this evening.
Licencing is an issue. The BBC data I'm using isn't provided by the
Backstage project (yet) [1], so I'm not sure what infringement is
happening there. If it was provided by backstage.bbc.co.uk then I'd be
alright [2]. I'm not sure what licence weather.com and NOAA provide with
their XML services.
However, I'd argue that the adverts are fair. I'm certainly not covering
the costs of thousands of GBP of hardware, colocation, bandwidth, and
many hours of coding - let alone "making money" :-)
Cheers,
J
[1] http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/WeatherFeeds
[2] http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/05/faq.html#canimakemoney
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: 04 January 2006 14:55
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] MetaWeather: Weather Mashup
Hello Jason,
Very nice, I have been trying to find the time to do some web based
stuff around weather data.
I'm a fairly keen windsurfer and there are quite a few quality sites
that give weather predictions that might be a good place to "borrow"
ideas from.
http://www.windguru.cz/ - provide excellent predictions of wind
movements using a number of different weather models.
http://www.xcweather.co.uk - provide the latest weather information for
the UK. The information is based on the feeds from the airports (for
example the reading in Bristol is Filton Private Airport). The buoys out
at see are from another source.
Perhaps you could merge those two feeds in as well?
Any chance of getting Bristol in there as well?
Cheers,
James
ps - how come the demo has google ad's on it? Does that increase the
licencing issues (i.e. your making money from other peoples data they
gave you for non commercial purposes?).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Cartwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 10:33 AM
Subject: [backstage] MetaWeather: Weather Mashup
http://www.metaweather.com
A website I've made in a personal capacity (nothing to do with the
BBC).
It takes the weather data from various websites (currently only
weather.com and the BBC, for London & New York - more coming) and
makes
a prediction based on their combined forecasts. Some parts are dodgy
at
the moment, and there may be licencing issues, but feedback
appreciated!
Cheers,
Jason
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