Presumably Dustin will be able to find the answers to your questions?
on 2/14/2008 10:26 AM Brad Johnson said the following:
Hello Jim H,
I don't see the logo or back-link as a deal breaker either, but what
size is the logo? Also, what do they consider "commercial users"? I know
we consider Higher Ed as "non-commercial", but do they?
thanks,
Brad
On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 21:22 -0600, Jim Helwig
jim.helwig-at-doit.wisc.edu |JASIG-List-2| wrote:
I don't see a logo or link back as a problem. Since our primary focus is higher
education, I don't see the fact that commercial users need to contact
AccuWeather as a problem. From the sounds of it, this seems like a good option.
It would be nice to see if this portlet could be implemented in a way that one
could fairly easily plug in alternative weather feeds if they were concerned
about this.
My two cents,
JimH
on 2/13/2008 7:16 PM Dustin S. said the following:
> I have recently been in contact with AccuWeather.com to explore the
> possibility of using their services for weather data.
>
> AccuWeather.com's services are used in one of the most popular Firefox
> add-ons: ForecastFox. If you are unfamiliar with AccuWeather you can
> visit http://www.accuweather.com/
>
> AccuWeather.com's people have been very friendly and nice to work with
> and have setup an XML weather service for uPortal to use in the weather
> portlet. An example:
> http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/weather-data.asp?location=16803&metric=1 <http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/weather-data.asp?location=16803&metric=1>
> <http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/weather-data.asp?location=16803&metric=1 <http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/weather-data.asp?location=16803&metric=1>>
>
> Use of their service in the weather portlet would require an AccuWeather
> logo and a link back to their site. The feed would be available without
> permission for all non-commercial users assuming they retain the logo
> and link back. They would like any commercial users to contact
> AccuWeather for permission to use the data. They said that commercial
> users are generally not a concern unless they are a large commercial
> user that could cause an overload to their servers.
>
> AccuWeather has /extensive/ international coverage of weather as well as
> /extensive /weather data and they seem to be very willing to work with us.
>
> I would really like to use AccuWeather's service but I'm not sure the
> commercial aspects would be acceptable to have this portlet included in
> UP3 hence the reason for this post.
>
> What does everyone else think?
>
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