Weather Data Available in XML 198
wombatmobile writes "Wired reports the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration this week began providing weather data in an open access XML format. Previously, the data was technically available to the public, but in a format that's not easily deciphered. How will the free and easy availability of valuable data like this in XML affect the development of the web? One example is Tom Groves SVG weather. This type of visualization of XML data is about to fall within easy reach with nothing more than a text editor required as an authoring tool. From March 2005 SVG becomes part of the standard Mozilla/FireFox build. As an example of how web standards are supposed to work, what more could you hope to find?" We mentioned the policy change a few days ago.
If it crashes.... (Score:5, Funny)
The question is..... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sorry, I'm sorry....it's another bad pun....I seriously need to talk to a psychologist about my BPS (Bad Pun Syndrome or Backup Power Supply, which ever you prefer).
Re:What's my lat and alt? (Score:5, Funny)
NOAA? (Score:5, Funny)
Weather or not (Score:2, Funny)
In Korea only old people know thier latitude and longitude.
Next step, better forecasting (Score:5, Funny)
It'll be easier to parse, but it won't be any more accurate.
EricRe:Extension for Firefox (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Next step, better forecasting (Score:5, Funny)
However unfortunately, because of a large slashdotting, you cannot get todays weather until tomorrow.
Several planned hurricanes were put on hold for a few days because of the disruption.
Impatient internet users were caught and fined for illegally downloading and sharing todays weather. One user had a large tornado and numerous thunderstorms on his server.
DOC format is better than XML. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The question is..... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The question is..... (Score:1, Funny)
No, but you seem to unknowingly transmitting those dastardly pop-ups via some form of cleverly embedded virus within your posting. I say this because not minutes after reading your post (as a rough gauge about the the time it took me to download that weatherBug thingy) I was also infected!
Fortunately, I am extremely 1337, and I recognized those dastardly "pop-ups" almost as instantly as dozens of them began appearing on my screen. I must now decipher the intricate workings of your post to extract the Trojan virus lurking within. I suspect some form of Java X Active encoding is hijacking all the lowercase letters "p" within your posting (this is subset of the three infamous j, p, and g exploits effecting all versions of IE Explorer).
To all
I will be back shortly with the patch. But, first I must enlarge my penis, attain a massive gambling debt, and masturbate furiously to porn I just purchased with my stack of totally legal off-shore credit cards.
Let god be with you.
Re:weather.com been doing this for a while (Score:3, Funny)
Coupler years ago I found myself on the sucky end of a reorg where I ended up working for this dweeb in Orlando (I'm in Chicago) where he would always do annoying things like ask what the weather was in Chicago and then spend 10 minutes talking about how it was 70 in January in Florida and he couldn't understand how anyone could stand 20 degree weather and then go on to blather about how he had gone fishing and caught fish and cooked them and on and on.
I had already set up a camera on my workstation long ago for netmeetings and I had occasionally pointed it out the window to show what the weather was like and the traffic down on the tollway below or the little driving range that is across the office park.
For some reason I got off the phone one day with this guy and decided I didn't want to get any work done for the rest of Friday afternoon and went about setting my camera up as a webcam (I used webcam2000 and then just set up a frames page on my webserver to include the image from the little port 8080 server that webcam2k runs).
"There, now the asshole can bring this up and take a look at the weather instead of asking me every time he calls!" I told my cube farm neighbors (who didn't work *for* him but still had to deal with his shit on a daily basis).
Next time he was on a call and asked about the weather, I told him what URL to use. Backfired. "Oh, looks really cold! What is it, like 20 below, bet even worse with the wind chill, huh?"
So, I wasted another hour or so in frustration (not because I needed to, but because it made me feel a little better) working on the webcam page to download the weather.com feed to show the current temp, wind, conditions, forecast and all that shit.
"Fucker, now he can just look at that and doesn't have to fukin ask me about the shitty weather in Chicago as a prelude to talking about how much he likes living in Florida and about his boat and what kind of fucking fish he caught last weekend and how he cooked it and what kind of beer he had with it and how could anyone live somewhere like Chicago where it's cold and you can't spend weekends in the Gulf fishing and drinking beer and getting fucked up the ass with a fishing pole. Fucker."
He still asked me about the weather every fucking day until I quit.
Re:weather.com been doing this for a while (Score:1, Funny)