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Google Weather API Feed Documentation

Posted May 7, 2008

The base URL:
http://www.google.com/ig/api?

This is the base URL which can be extended with the following parameters:

The Weather parameter:
weather=location

Where location can be either a zip code (weather=24060); city name, state (weather=woodland,PA); city name, country (weather=london,england); or possibly others. Try it out and see what response you get back to test your location.

The language parameter:
hl=ISO 639-1 Language Code

For example, to get the weather for Paris, France in French, one would use the following URL:
http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=paris,france&hl=fr

The Google Weather API is not an official public Google API so use it wisely.

Another Project Idea

Posted May 5, 2008

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Just had another project idea. After using Twhirl and other Adobe AIR applications, I wouldn’t mind also making one for Remember the Milk. There have been a few requests for one and I think it would be an interesting technology to learn. So you can add that to my long list of projects in the pipeline to do.

Another quick note. I got my Google Appengine invite the other day. I started developing Milk API with the Google Appengine development kit. Just have a few more things to fix on that and I should be able to deploy it within a couple weeks.

Back to hanging out with Rachel and waiting for our Jimmy John’s to get here!

./Jason

Track Me

Posted May 2, 2008

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I am heading to Knoxville this weekend to visit Rachel for a few days. During my travels you can see where I am at via a new web service called Brightkite. You can see the places I have been here on the map:

http://brightkite.com/people/jemerick/places?map=true

I have 3 invites left so if anyone would like one, let me know.

It currently does not work with Verizon through SMS yet (they are waiting on Verizon to approve them) but I am still able to update via e-mail.

./Jason