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

[Jonathan Martens]

Hi all,

I have been using MythTV for a while now and am very pleased with it. 
However since I do not live in the UK, US or Australia I was a bit 
disappointed in the available grabbers for MythWeather.

I therefore started looking for sites that contain a lot bigger base of 
cities than the current grabbers can source. I quickly stumbled on 
AccuWeather and after some searching I stumbled on this link [1] a while 
  ago, mainly triggered by the service they provide to ForecastFox, a 
weather plug-in for Firefox.

I contacted listed contact a while ago and got a reply that they might 
be willing to provide services to MythTV users:

Quote from M. Sylvie, Director, New Media Business Development:

"Regarding your question, would you be disseminating the plug-in to 
others? If so, do you have any idea how many people might use this?

Depending on the demands your plug-in will make on our servers, we may 
be able to provide the API for free (in exchange for branding)."

Now I would like to now if there is any of such data available, so I can 
try and contact them and see if we can work out the details. I could not 
find any things on installed user base in the wiki or on the website, so 
perhaps someone here does now or can give an estimate.

I also would like to know if I need to be aware of things such as 
license issues before continuing as MythTV is GPL and I do not know the 
requirements AccuWeather has for using their services, although I guess 
they would like to have their copyright message for the data (or some 
other branding) when viewing data grabbed from their website.

Is there also a vision on the branding feature mentioned by Mr. Sylvie?

I have developed basic grabber functionality prototypes at the moment 
and would really like to move forward and provide this new feature to 
MythTV users.

Kind regards,

Jonathan

[1] 
<http://www.accuweather.com/promo-ad.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&dir=aw&page=forecastfox>