WEATHER UNDERGROUND
Recently Weather Undergrund updated all of their weather programs to a more easier program layout to view the various weather conditions. I like to use the FULL SCREEN version which only has just a...
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RoyB wrote:
Recently Weather Undergrund updated all of their weather programs to a more easier program layout to view the various weather conditions.
The biggest change was moving from using Google Maps to Mapbox/OpenstreetMap. The Terms of Service for Google Maps is changing. If you used Google Maps on your web site, the number of links you got before you had to pay, changes to a lower number. On a personal web site with a few hundred reads a day it made no difference. Someone like Weather Underground with millions of users per day will be severely impacted. Since, the "WunderMap" changed about 10 days ago, the original features of the application are being restored slowly. It appears that they are using the customer base as beta testers.
Any application that has a Google Map in it will be subject to this. The TOS change was announced but does not become effective for a while yet. So any application that you use with a map could be changing.
I believe the Intellicast full screen weather radar uses a satellite image as the background, rather than a map, so it has not changed.
Intellicast, The Weather Channel, and Weather Underground are all part of 'The Weather Company'. IBM has been owner now for almost a year. That is about long enough for the management to start looking for any similar applications that can be changed, removed or combined.
