Assuming that the Weather GeoRSS data does not change constantly, maybe you could exponentially reduce the number of requests by implementing some sort of caching on your side and set the expiry time to one hour.
Just an idea, to be honest, I am not familiar how often the data gets updated on their side. -spiros On Feb 7, 2008 3:45 PM, Rob Dunfey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm writing an application that displays weather at various locations > throughout the world on a digital globe, similar to Google Earth. I use the > BBC Weather GeoRSS feeds to grab the weather info for each location, this > involves making a web request for each of the 278 locations I display on the > globe. I would like to share this app with people but for each person i > share it with, another 278 requests are made. Is this considered acceptable > behavior? If 200 people used this application just once, that would be in > excess of 55,000 hits? Is this acceptable? > > All the best, > > Rob >
