On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 13:34 -0700, Dustin S. icedout3e-at-gmail.com |
JASIG-List-2| wrote:
> Brad,
>
> Thanks. I checked it out and built the project. Everything packaged
> fine. I did not actually deploy it yet.
>
> We are shooting for an international portlet and from my
> understanding, the NOAA service did not provide international weather.
> From what I read, it only provided U.S. and surround waters. Can you
> confirm this?
Hello Dustin,
Yep, NOAA is only for US and surrounding waters.
Is there a royalty free, unlimited access, international weather service
to be had? I reviewed the agreements of the various weather services
discussed in September on the uportal-users list and didn't find any of
their agreements to be acceptable. My search was
probably not exhaustive, though.
Here's the attributes that I think we would need in a service (these are
up for discussion):
- basic weather information (hi/low/current/condition/forecast , etc.)
- covers the US
(international weather will likely be a separate task)
- no attribution requirement
- no logo requirement
- no limit on number of areas to get weather for
- allow commercial use
The NOAA XML weather service doesn't seem to have a restrictive Terms of
Use policy. http://www.nws.noaa.gov/xml/ The other services seem to have
unacceptable restrictions. Here are some highlights I've collected (back
in September) from each source's terms of use policy that seems to make
them inappropriate for inclusion in a default uPortal weather channel:
== yahoo.com T&C ==
http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/#terms
... "The feeds are provided free of charge for use by individuals and
non-profit organizations for personal, non-commercial uses. We ask that
you provide attribution to Yahoo! Weather in connection with your use of
the feeds." ...
== weather.com.au ==
http://www.weather.com.au/about/rss
..."You may only use up to 10 different weather locations per domain. If
you require more than this, please contact us for authorization first.
* A link back to weather.com.au must be provided for every
location you display weather for on your site. The URL to link
back to is provided in the feed using the <link> tag.
* If you wish to display icons, these must be linked directly to
the icons hosted on our server. You may not copy the icons and
host them on your own server. The full URL to each applicable
icon is included in the feed."...
== weather.com ==
http://www.weather.com/weather/rss/subscription#
..."The RSS Service is for personal, non-commercial use only. Any other
uses, including without limitation the incorporation of advertising into
or the placement of advertising associated with or targeted towards the
RSS Content, are strictly prohibited. You may not add any content to the
RSS Service."...
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If there is an acceptable free international weather service then that's
great, but for us "free" is more important than "international". I
imagine the same would be true for everyone no matter if they are in the
US or not. We might need to make the weather service plug-able to take
advantage of various regional free weather services.
thanks,
Brad Johnson
>
> Thanks,
> Dustin.
>
> On Feb 12, 2008 12:35 PM, Brad Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> Hey Dustin and Andrew,
>
> I've committed the code
>
> to /sandbox/WeatherPortlet/branches/texastech-noaa-maven .
>
> Go ahead and take a look. It builds with Maven 2 now. Let me
> know if you
> have problems building it.
>
>
> BTW, there are screenshots in the /docs directory.
>
> thanks,
> Brad Johnson
> Texas Tech University
>
>
> > On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 08:29 -0700, Dustin S.
> icedout3e-at-gmail.com |
> > JASIG-List-2| wrote:
> > Brad,
> >
> > Like Andrew said, branches would be a more appropriate place
> to put
> > it. Thanks for the contribution.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dustin.
> >
> > On Feb 8, 2008 8:19 AM, Andrew Petro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Brad,
> >
> > I'd suggest committing your code seed somewhere more
> like
> >
> > /sandbox/WeatherPortlet/branches/texastech-noaa-seed
> >
> > or the like, allowing Dustin Schultz et al. to
> review this
> > before svn
> > copying it to trunk as the starting point for this
> effort (or
> > not,
> > harvesting parts of it for that effort instead).
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> > Brad Johnson wrote:
> > > Hello Ja-sig
> > >
> > > I have a working weather portlet that uses the new
> NOAA
> > weather service
> > > XML API. Is written using spring portlet MVC. I
> believe, it
> > would be a
> > > good starting point for the jasig-weather
> portlet. It uses
> > ant for the
> > > build process, but should be simple to build with
> maven.
> > >
> > > I would like to go ahead and commit this to
> > > the /sandbox/WeatherPortlet/trunk as a starting
> point. Is
> > that okay?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > Brad Johnson
> > > Texas Tech University
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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