[mythtv] Q: mythweather: character encoding

[Alec Leamas]

On 03/28/2010 07:29 PM, Gavin Hurlbut wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Jonathan Martens<jonathan at snetram.nl>  wrote:
>    
>> On 28-3-2010 16:34, Gavin Hurlbut wrote:
>>      
>>> I have a grabber ready to be committed for trunk (after 0.23 is
>>> official) that uses yr.no, which covers pretty much the entire world.
>>>        
>> [...]
>>
>>      
>>> Also, please be sure to ensure that any grabber you create adheres to
>>> the terms of service for the data provider.  If it doesn't, it most
>>> certainly will not be accepted into the repository.  Just a heads up.
>>>        
>> The latter might be the case for your grabber as well as according to
>> http://www.yr.no/verdata/1.6810075 usage is only allowed from Norway. I am
>> not sure if that will pass the criteria to be committed to the repository as
>> well.
>>      
> That is not true.
>
> yr.no says they are primarily doing it for Norway and aren't
> encouraging outside use, but do not preclude it.  Read carefully.  I
> have had several Norwegians translate the ToS for me, and none of the
> translations say it is only available in Norway, nor does the link you
> gave.
>
> Sorry to disappoint you ;)
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I have also been playing with yr.no, and it's really temtping to use 
this site: good forecasts for large parts of the world, and liberal ToS. 
But there is also problems:

- It *is* ok to use the site from outside Norway (I'm Swede, and have 
read the page). However, the ToS requires that a 93 character long 
promotion text is displayed in the same font as other text on the 
screen. This is not possible today, at least not in 0.22. The forecast 
windows doesn't even has a copyright field, and it's anyway hard to fit 
93 characters. The only way I can think of is some kind of stock ticker.

- The forecasts from yr.no doesn't include the probability of 
precipitation (pop) parameter. Instead, it gives the anticipated amount 
of precipitation for the period (in mm). IMHO  mythweather should be 
able to display this instead of pop in this situation, but this needs 
some work.

Unless anyone think its a bad idea, I'm about to file bugs against 
mythweather for these things.