[horde] Important Information Regarding Your weather.com XML Data Feed (fwd)

[Michael Rubinsky]

Quoting Andrew Morgan <morgan at orst.edu>:

> I received this message from Weather.com about a week ago.
>
> They have some particularly onerous requirements, such as displaying their
> 5 included advertising links.  As far as I can tell, I'm not violating
> their terms of service except for the 5 links requirement, but they still
> have disabled my Weather.com access today.
>
> I guess I'll contact them to ask specifically why they disabled us.

Are you sure you are disabled?  I think that there might have been a  
change in the XML file that is returned and Services_Weather is not  
properly parsing it.

If you put the url to access the feed in your browser, do you receive  
the feed? I do...

http://xoap.weather.com/weather/local/30339?cc=*&dayf=5&link=xoap&prod=xoap&par=[PartnerID]&key=[LicenseKey]



>
>  	Andy
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:03:54 -0500
> From: The Weather Channel <privacy2 at twcweather.com>
> To: morgan at orst.edu
> Subject: Important Information Regarding Your weather.com XML Data Feed
>
> Dear morgan at orst.edu:
>
> We are contacting you because you are a registrant
> for the weather.com XML Data Feed (the ?Service?).
> We are providing you with IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING
> THE CONTINUATION OF YOUR ACCESS TO THE SERVICE. Your
> registered application may or may not currently be
> in compliance with the terms of our agreement
> (please refer to the developer SDK containing the
>   license agreement ? see link below). We are in
> the process of updating the Service to programmatically
> validate certain licensing conditions. Beginning
> May 6, 2008, if your application is not in
> compliance with these terms, the Service will no
> longer return data to your application.
>
> The complete terms and conditions surrounding the use
> of the Service can be found in the developer SDK
> along with graphical icons that are necessary to
> represent the sky conditions associated with our
> current conditions and forecast data, and our logo.
> This SDK can be accessed by clicking on the link below.
>
> http://twcweather.com/twc40/c2.php?TWC/7780857/2559/T/N/V/http://download.weather.com/web/xoap/sdk.zip
>
> You may update your user profile or change your product
> selections at any time by logging in to the weather.com
> registration system with the following information:
>
> Sign-In Page:  
> http://twcweather.com/twc40/c2.php?TWC/7780857/2561/T/N/V/https://registration.weather.com/ursa/xmloap/step2
> E-mail address: morgan at orst.edu
>
> The Service includes:
>
>      * city search capability for all locations covered by  
> http://twcweather.com/twc40/c2.php?TWC/7780857/2562/T/N/V/www.weather.com;
>      * location specific information necessary for data
> presentation;
>      * current condition information (Observations) for
> the selected location; and
>      * up to five (5) days of forecast information
> (the current day?s forecast plus four additional
> days of forecast information in consecutive order
> beginning with tomorrow?s forecast) for the selected
> location in ten (10), 12-hour day-parts.
>
> VERY IMPORTANT
>
> YOU MAY NOT USE THE SERVICE TO CREATE WEATHER AND
> WEATHER-RELATED PRODUCTS TO BE DISPLAYED ON HANDHELD
> OR OTHER WIRELESS DEVICES.
>
> YOU MAY NOT USE THE SERVICE IN CONNECTION WITH AMONG
> OTHER THINGS, ANY BROADCAST TELEVISION, INTERACTIVE
> TELEVISION, CABLE TELEVISION, TELEPHONE OR DSL SERVICES,
> DIGITAL CABLE SERVICES, HEAD-END-IN-THE-SKY SATELLITE
> SYSTEMS, RADIO, PRINT PUBLICATIONS, DIGITAL BROADCAST
> SATELLITES, TELEMATICS, TELETEXT, VIDEO-ON-DEMAND, KIOSK
> DISPLAY, OR OTHER PUBLIC OR PRIVATE INFORMATION DISPLAY
> UNIT, WIRE-LINE TELEPHONE, OR 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.
>
> YOU MAY NOT USE ANY LATITUDE OR LONGITUDE DATA
> ASSOCIATED WITH A LocID OR ZIP CODE EVEN IF SUCH
> INFORMATION IS RETURNED AS PART OF AN XML DOCUMENT
> FROM THE XML FEED.
>
> USE OF THE SERVICE IN VIOLATION OF THE TERMS OF YOUR
> AGREEMENT WITH TWCi MAY RESULT IN YOUR IMMEDIATE
> TERMINATION AND PAYMENT OF MONETARY DAMAGES TO TWCi.
>
> To comply with the terms of the Agreement, Your
> Website or Desktop Application must, among other
> things:
>
>      * display weather data for no more than three
> (3) locations at a time;
>      * adhere to the data request rules, usage rules,
> and refresh rates outlined in Exhibit B of the Agreement;
>      * clearly separate TWCi data from other data
> within a single visual element;
>      * identify that the weather data comes from TWCi
> by incorporating The Weather Channel logo containing
> an embedded link to the  
> http://twcweather.com/twc40/c2.php?TWC/7780857/2562/T/N/V/www.weather.com  
> home page
> (one of 5 Required Links);
>      * provide four (4) promotional links, selected
> by TWCi and provided through the Service on each data
> call, back to  
> http://twcweather.com/twc40/c2.php?TWC/7780857/2562/T/N/V/www.weather.com  
> for additional weather
> information in close proximity to the TWCi Content
> as set forth in Exhibit B of the Agreement; and
>      * be free of charge to your end-users.
>
> If you cannot meet these requirements but would still
> like to use our weather data, please contact our
> business development department at 770-226-0000.
>
> Thank you for your continued support!
>
> Your friends at The Weather Channel Interactive, Inc.
> (a/k/a weather.com)
>
> Check out other tools by The Weather Channel at  
> http://twcweather.com/twc40/c2.php?TWC/7780857/2560/T/N/V/http://www.weather.com/services.
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Thanks,
mike

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