Weather Data Available in XML

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.

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What Will Kill The Internet...

[cjsnell]

Contrary to today's poll, virii, spam, and backhoes will not kill the internet--but SOAP will. (For proof, see this image from this story's article)

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[steelframe]

An easy to use open source XML weather data base app is avaialable from http://www.laszlosystems.com/demos/weather/. Works great if you have a zip code, outside the US you may be on your own.

Re:March 2005?

[g_braad]

Without deadlines there would be no usable world. Imagine yourself at the gate of an airplane using a 'open flight' model. NO thank you! i see myself endlessly waiting for it to leave. see it as a goal... and it is also a good thing to push the Mozilla implementation a little more.

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EasyJet, the pioneers of the 'open flight' model

Re:NOAA?

[Capt'n Hector]

I modded this redundant, but people keep modding it up. So, I guess I'll have to forfeit that and explain:

See this comment from 3 days ago.