[mythtv] Inquiry for user base data in order to try and develop and seup a new MythWeather viewer

[Johan]

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 14:45 +0100, Stuart Morgan wrote:
> On Thursday 08 May 2008 13:33:34 Ian Barton wrote:
> > > On Thursday 08 May 2008 08:04:13 Ian Barton wrote:
> > >> I would be interested in this. I am in the UK, but Accuweather provides
> > >> much more accurate forecasts than the current MythTV provider
> > >> (weather.com?).
> > >
> > > BBC, who get their data from the Met Office. Not sure how you could get
> > > more accurate than that?
> >
> > I don't know who Accuweather get their raw data from (possibly Met
> > Office). However, they do their own forecasting. In my experience this
> > is significantly more accurate and has much finer grained regional
> > information than the BBC.
> 
> Accuweather might offer more than I could find, especially with the pay 
> services, but I could only find city/town level information in their free 
> reports.
> 
> The BBC match reports to postcodes at a finer granularity e.g. Cities in the 
> UK only merit a general report on Accuweather, but the BBC offer several 
> reports for the area depending on your postcode - enter a different postcode 
> within the same city and the current conditions/forecast change based on the 
> closest weather station.
> 
> If you want to create a new grabber for Accuweather then I'm not trying to 
> discourage you. If you want that grabber to be included in the official 
> distribution then it should be done with the permission, implicit if using an 
> RSS feed, of AccuWeather.

Stuart,

with all respect, but think you're missing the point. BBC weather is
fine if your residence is in the UK, I'm sure. But as the OP said, we do
not all live in UK, US or Australia. Accuweather provides global data,
including many countries "on the continent". I (personally) would really
appreciate a grabber for Accuweather. This service would benefit users
globally. 

Johan