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waldoj / frostline

A dataset, API, and parser for USDA plant hardiness zones.
https://phzmapi.org/
MIT License
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Create new server with data #9

Closed juansaavedrauy closed 7 years ago

juansaavedrauy commented 8 years ago

Hello,

We where using the data provided in the pages for this project. I see that it has now been removed from the repo. I'm just wondering if there are any plans for this or we just should take the data and mount it in another place.

The USDA API is really bad and from the other issue, it does not seem likely that it will be accessible in the long term.

Thanks.

waldoj commented 8 years ago

The data was removed out of concern that the private party to whom the USDA has provided a data licensing contract could take it upon themselves to take legal action. (Any such legal action would be groundless—they have no right to the exclusive use of public data—but it could happen nonetheless.) I don't plan to host the data here again. Also, the USDA's website rebuilt their CAPTCHA system explicitly for the purpose of blocking Frostline from working.

However, last month we figured out enough to get around that CAPTCHA (#8), though it remains to do the work to write the code to extract that data. When that's done, Frostline will work again.

simonv3 commented 7 years ago

Hey @waldoj, let me know if I can help somehow. I have lots of angry feels right now and want to channel them for good.

waldoj commented 7 years ago

This issue is obviated by #10.