<div dir="ltr">hmmm we could do but then we would be using more google resources (evil) but would then get free results (good), so we have to balance that up. i know there was some open source kit somewhere, that did geolocation by ip and JS calls etc, but i cant remember where/what it was. will have to see if i can dig it up again<br>
<br>regards<br><br>mark<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 5:31 AM, Aerik Sylvan <<a href="mailto:aerik@thesylvans.com">aerik@thesylvans.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Mark (Markie) <<a href="mailto:newsmarkie@googlemail.com" target="_blank">newsmarkie@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I know i havent been to active round here recently (been really busy, sorry :-( ) but one thing that i have noticed on the mailing lists that really interested me is the widgets ideas. IMO these are really key things that, shouldnt :-p, be too hard to implement. Ive had a brief look at one of the widgets which i look for alot, which is weather (although i dont know why, it always seems to be rain :-p)<br>
<br>NWS / NOAA provide an XML output of weather for all US cities and most international cities, and with it being a US gov org all its content is therefore PD and totally free to use and copy etc (not a lawyer though). this we could then implement easily using a JS call from the search var, with or without looking for a "weather: XXX" keyword and then output next to the search results, maybe below the adverts. this could also be JS implemented to be hide able etc with more widgets....... the problem with NOAA IMO is that it requires calls to use lat/long co-ordinates for the calls, thus required more geo-location stuff which makes this harder and harder.<br>
</div></blockquote></div><div><br>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...<br>
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