Hello Dustin, I was sitting here thinking... kweather has weather information for the whole world. It looks like they do use NOAA, but not the web and xml services I used in that portlet. They use METAR: http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/metar.shtml
Here's a list of station names that they have weather data for in METAR: http://weather.noaa.gov/data/nsd_bbsss.txt Here's a java project that retrieves and parses METAR data. Its license is LGPL which should work for ja-sig: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jweather/ Looks like a good option to me. What do you think? thanks, Brad Johnson Texas Tech University On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 17:16 -0700, Dustin S. icedout3e-at-gmail.com | JASIG-List-2| wrote: > 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 - 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 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)? > > On Feb 12, 2008 2:11 PM, Brad Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > 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."... > ======================================= > > 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. 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