[Search-l] Widgets

[Mark (Markie)]

hmm that looks useful :-)

mark

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Sven Dowideit <SvenDowideit at home.org.au>
wrote:

> A quick search for open geo-data reveals services like
> http://www.geonames.org/about.html
>
> CC attribution licensed, and they bother to cite sources - I've not
> looked at where Google gets its data, but I'm always suspicious of
> un-cited commercial 'datasets'.
>
> Sven
>
> Mark (Markie) wrote:
> > hmm this is the problem i kinda outlined above, as to what amount do we
> > accept the use of unfree services that may use info from our users in the
> > "wrong" way, such as google, yahoo etc.  i agree that we should try at
> all
> > costs to stay free, but to what limits will we accept the use of apis etc
> > from proprietaries?
> >
> > regards
> >
> > mark
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Aerik Sylvan wrote:
> >>> Hmm... couldn't you use a Google Maps API call (JS) to get the lat
> lang,
> >>> then call the NOAA feed?  I haven't looked at the NOAA feed at all,
> >>> but...  Then we cache the lat/lang in a cookie or something, to avoid a
> >>> gazillion calls.  Might be a little tricky with pure javascript, if the
> >>> NOAA feed is only xml and not JSON, but...
> >> I am 100% all for this, and I am also a free software and free data
> >> fanatic, and would love to see a way to make all of this available under
> >> a free license.
> >>
> >> So calling external APIs to proprietary servcies to make life better is
> >> great -- we are doing this now, calling Yahoo BOSS when we have no
> >> results -- but it is only great as long as we keep firmly focussed on:
> >> how can we also replace this with something really open and free.
> >>
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