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What’s The Weather?March 29th, 2006 by Narendra |
30 Boxes has some nicely integrated weather features. The first thing you should do is visit My Settings > Web Stuff and put in your zip code so you get your local weather on your calendar.
It doesn’t end there! We just added some slick ajax that gives you a little weather preview in your event notes for any event that has a decipherable location. For example:
trip to new york may 14 [new york, ny]
will give you an event on May 14 called “trip to new york” and anytime you click the Day View for May 14, you will have a notes field that includes a link to a Google Map, and the current three-day weather forecast for that location. You can also use a zip code instead of city, state.
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March 29th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
That’s cool..but it doesn’t work when you edit a note. Only works on newly created events.
March 29th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
I notice it doesn’t work with non-U.S. locations… I just tested it on Vancouver, Canada.
I may as well ask it now, is there plans to add international support? (Not that it will affect *me* much, but I know there’s quite a lot of international users who will want it.)
March 29th, 2006 at 5:57 pm
It would be very helpful if that field in My Settings > Web Stuff provided the smarts to translate non-US city names to the appropriate Yahoo Whether RSS feed. For example, the RSS feed for Vancouver, BC, Canada is:
http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=CAXX0518&u=f
so entering “CAXX0518″ in the 30boxes config panel works for me, but is quite a round-about way of getting there.
March 30th, 2006 at 11:32 am
Nice! Thanks.
April 3rd, 2006 at 6:49 am
I’m with Trent and Daniel, please make this and other mashups work with non-US cities. I’m profiled for NY, but live in the UK. So no weather and no TV schedules for me then…
April 3rd, 2006 at 7:06 pm
It would be nice if you could set it to use Celsius units.
April 5th, 2006 at 7:29 pm
The weather feature does not work for my it gives an error code of “http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=76424 did not have feed data we could understand.” And I have a normal Texas zip code. Then even when I manually entered the RSS feed from Yahoo it displays the wrong weather info, I highly doubt its going to snow friday in Texas…
April 13th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
I am getting the same error as Kevin.
May 2nd, 2006 at 9:40 am
You should check out niceweather.com, they offer 30 day weather forecasts in xml format.