This looks fantastic!

At Yale we have a Spring PortletMVC weather portlet that uses JAXB to
unmarshall the Yahoo weather service feeds, then displays the data in a JSP
page.  I wanted to use the XML data rather that just display the html in the
RSS feed, since it would give us better control over the presentation, as
well as the ability to display more data.  We've been pretty happy with that
approach so far, but Yahoo doesn't provide a good way to get locations for
international locations, and I know AccuWeather has access to even more
data.  I think it would be pretty simple to use a similar approach to
display the data from the AccuWeather service if we wanted.

Screenshots of the current Yale portlet are here:
http://tp.its.yale.edu/confluence/display/YIP/Weather+Portlet.

- Jen


On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Dustin S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Jen,
> The data provided is far superior to any other service that I've seen, I
> was really impressed when I first saw it. The API for getting locations is
> *also really* nice IMO. You can see an example here:
> http://uport.accu-weather.com/widget/uport/city-find.asp?location=london .
> The location string can take many types of values (zipcode, city, city and
> country).
>

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