I'm OK with a logo and link backs. We use a service from WeatherBug (the
priviledge which we pay several thousand each year for) and it contains logos
and a links. I am hesitant to use anything that requires end-user registration
or limits the number of requests (since we have over 50,000 users).
It would be ideal if the weather portlet cached information. I can imagine that
the actual number of cities queried each hour/day is less than the number of
users.
JimH
on 2/12/2008 6:16 PM Dustin S. said the following:
It is proving to be a difficult, if not impossible thing to find an
international service that is ABSOLUTELY free and allows commercial usage.
Right now the two choices of international services are:
1.) Accuweather.com <http://Accuweather.com> - currently in contact
with, unsure as to the status of commercial usage. Their service will
require a link back to accuweather and an accuweather logo.
2.) Weather.com <http://Weather.com> SDK - I have looked at license, it
requires registration on user part to even use as well as a limit of
25,000 requests, a logo, and at least 3 link backs.
Personally I don't mind the usage of a logo or link backs since you
can't really get away from them (they're providing a service that costs
them money). We use Yahoo Weather at our university which requires
clickbacks and logo's and its worked out great.
What do others think about this? Are logo's and clickbacks ok or no?
If logo's and clickbacks's are not an option then providing an
international weather portlet may require the usage of several weather
feeds.
For U.S. and surround waters we could use: NOAA.
Other places: ???
Brad, can you look and see if you can find any other services outside of
the U.S. that provide weather entirely free? I will take a look as well
in case we need to run this route.
Also, can any foreign users chime in if they are using a weather service
that is entirely free (like NOAA)?
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