Goodbye, Weather Podcast
It's a sad day...I've decided to remove my weather podcast. The reason for this is an email I received from weather.com which clearly outlines their T&C for use of their XML data feed. Specifically, I am concerned about these conditions:
"YOU MAY NOT USE THE SERVICE IN CONNECTION WITH AMONG OTHER THINGS...AS ALL OR PART OF ANY STREAMING VIDEO OR AUDIO CONTENT OR FOR DELIVERY BY ANY MEANS OTHER THAN STATIC DISPLAY ON A TRADITIONAL WEB PAGE ON YOUR WEBSITE OR DESKTOP APPLICATION."
"Your Website or Desktop Application must...display weather data for no more than three (3) locations at a time..."
I am most likely in violation of one or both of these. The whole T&C seems to go against all of the reasons that would drive you to provide an XML feed in the first place...to me, at least. It certainly makes it impossible to use for any type of mashup or any other interesting app.
So, I can get weather data for no more than 3 locations and can only display it as a static web page...whoopdeefuckingdo. Completely useless.