Thanks for all the replies. I had hoped to avoid collating the feeds in my own database, as the database would have to be maintained by tech services. I will proceed as initially planned without any database, but change the application to make significantly less queries to be on the safe side.
At some point in the future, perhaps the BBC could look into providing collated weather feeds for each of the continents, e.g. one feed for all European capitals, one feeds for all North American capitals? It would be the same data but just 5 requests, instead of the hundreds currently required. All the best and many thanks, Rob On 11/02/2008, Russ Hendy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rob, > > Apologies if someone's already said this, but you should really consider > server-side caching: Only grab a new feed if the one you currently have > is "out of date" - otherwise just save and use the last one you had. > Makes all the difference! > > Russ. > > Rob Dunfey 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 > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial > list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >
