{"id":971,"date":"2005-01-24T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2005-01-24T00:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=971"},"modified":"2005-01-24T00:01:57","modified_gmt":"2005-01-24T00:01:57","slug":"government_weat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=971","title":{"rendered":"Government Weather Data: Must We Pay Twice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/01\/23\/business\/yourmoney\/23techno.html?ex=1264136400&amp;en=667688e445290fa4&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland\">James Fallows<\/a> takes a look at the intersection of public (taxpayer funded) and private (business) interests, specifically, weather data that we&#8217;ve already paid for. Some businesses, who have made a living recycling that data, would like to continue their gatekeeper role.  [We have examples of this in Madison.  <a href=\"http:\/\/accessdane.co.dane.wi.us\/\">Access Dane<\/a> offers &#8220;subscription&#8221; access to data that we&#8217;ve already paid for].   Here&#8217;s a clip from Fallows article.  Read it all.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>some of the most significant innovations have been made where public and private efforts touch. In its first term, the Bush team made a few important pro-technology choices. Over the next year it will signal whether it intends to stand by them.<br \/>\nThere is a long historical background to the administration&#8217;s choices, plus a variety of recent shifts and circumstances. The history stretches to the early days of the republic, and the idea that government-sponsored research in science and technology could bolster private business growth. Progress in farming, led by the land-grant universities, demonstrated this concept in the 19th century. Sputnik-era science, culminating in the work that led to the Internet, did the same in the 20th century.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  Open source weather is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noaa.gov\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nCreate your own weather site using the NOAA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nws.noaa.gov\/forecasts\/xml\/\">xml web service<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Fallows takes a look at the intersection of public (taxpayer funded) and private (business) interests, specifically, weather data that we&#8217;ve already paid for. Some businesses, who have made a living recycling that data, would like to continue their gatekeeper role. [We have examples of this in Madison. Access Dane offers &#8220;subscription&#8221; access to data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14,9,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}