WOW,
Talk about "changes a foot", I agree with everything said so far........My gripe is along with the previous posting, if WU wants are data for free, then surely uping the limit on their API downloads seems to me a fair compromise. After all, we are using their data for a purpose, we are not hackers, we don't exploit the data, either from WU or any other source, we (and I hope I speak for everyone) all use the correct acknowledgments as far as where the data has come from......namely using and displaying direct links back to the original source of the data.
I'm thinking down the road, as things progress, we will all eventually have to pay to get the data we require, this would be a shame in some respects and could result in killing off our interest. Maybe we should all start to put our heads together on this one and come to a compromise which would leave everyone happy - before the decision is made for us and we regret not doing something about it now. After all, WU has got the ball rolling, maybe now is the time to get one voice together, it's clear that WU knows that there are thousands of us literally sending data to them, yet they have steam-rolled us into a corner without so much as a "well we are proposing this, that and the other.........you station owners can do this, that or whatever to obtain our data, etc, new guidelines will be implemented in the new year, whatever.
Like always, big company's have big clout, but without our data, it leaves companies like WU with a hole. NOAA is a prime example of how an organization uses us to get what they want, they do all the upgrade to their site, they let you know well in advance what they plan to do, also they keep the old parts of their sites running so as to give us the users the chance to upgrade and change over.......COME ON WU, lets be fair on this, we just need a little heads up, and more importantly..........A VOICE !!
