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Get weather from openweathermap.org #72

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Get weather information from http://openweathermap.org/example-json

Original issue reported on code.google.com by DNelubin on 8 Jul 2012 at 6:53

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Issue 70 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by DNelubin on 8 Jul 2012 at 2:08

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Another alternative would be yr.no . Its data is coming from the Norwegian 
Meteorological Institute. This service was considered good enough for the 
xfce4-weather-plugin to switch from weather.com to yr.no . [1] 

Perhaps this would be good for weather-notification-android, too. 

[1] 
http://old.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE:-xfce4-weather-plugin-0.8.0-released-to34199112.h
tml

Original comment by landroni...@gmail.com on 26 Jul 2012 at 8:01

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Yet another alternative, preferable to Google as far as I'm concerned, is the 
Yahoo! Weather RSS Feed [1]. It comes with an extensively documented API. 
[1] http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/

An example of their API use: 
To get the forecast for Paris, France, use the WOEID 615702: 
http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=615702

Terms of Use: 
"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. 

If you provide this attribution in text, please use: "Yahoo! Weather." 
If you provide this attribution with a graphic, please use the Yahoo! 
Weather logo that we have included in the feed itself. 

 We reserve all rights in and to the Yahoo! Weather logo, and your 
right to use the Yahoo! Weather logo is limited to providing 
attribution in connection with these RSS feeds. 

Yahoo! also reserves the right to require you to cease distributing 
these feeds at any time for any reason." 

These terms seem pretty innocuous. The app is clearly not a for-profit 
organization and has no commercial use. As long as we give due credit we should 
be able to use their feed. 

For a lengthy discussion on the Xfce ML on the (dis)advantages of various free 
weather data providers---Google, Yahoo, openweathermap.org, met.no, 
WorldWeatherOnline, etc.---see [2]. 

[2] 
http://old.nabble.com/use-openweathermap.org-(was:-Re:-ANNOUNCE:-xfce4-weather-p
lugin-0.8.0-released)-to34214132.html#a34262864

Original comment by landroni...@gmail.com on 10 Aug 2012 at 1:10

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Openweathermap is free and open. It's the only free weather source available. 
So while it works implementation of other sources have minor priority.

Original comment by DNelubin on 19 Jun 2014 at 12:16