[Upd-discuss] Free weather data challenged by private providers

[David Tannenbaum]

You can make a quick comment to the National Weather Service at
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/fairweather/feedback.php.


http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/27/0216251

The Future of Free Weather Data on the Internet

Posted by michael on Sunday June 27, @06:05AM
from the looks-like-rain dept.
  An anonymous reader writes "The National Weather Service wants to
update a 1991 policy that limits what data it can put on the Internet.
The proposed new policy makes putting free data on the Internet
official. The Private Weather Sector wants NWS to provide its new
digital forecasts only in specialized data formats and would like NWS to
shut down new XML data feeds. Barry Myers (MS Word doc), president of
Accuweather wants you to have pay before using Kweather and other
similar tools. Myers is asking friends to comment against the new NWS
policy by June 30. Should we have to pay twice to get weather forecasts?"



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