ANNOUNCE: xfce4-weather-plugin 0.8.0 released

[houghi]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 09:11:47PM +0200, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> > A public API would be fine indeed, but a search results page is no good
> > solution, a small change can break the plugin easily. I wonder whether they
> > are allowed to make it public though.
> >
> How would it be different from the way Google makes the info public?
> Anyways, I sent an "official" inquiry regarding the API and public
> availability/redistribution of the data. I didn't yet get a reply, but
> will keep you posted.

Google might work with an API which aks for a key. e.g. if you want to use
Google Maps, you need to subscribe for an API key. That will give you a
certain amount of requests. e.g. 2500 requests per day.
That is sufficient for a user or even a small company. It is not enough
for all users of a program that will be distributed and installed on at
least 2500 PCs.

For now something like
http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=brussels+belgium does not need a key,
but if many people start using it, Google could block its usage. That
would mean we would be in the same situation as before.

houghi
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