Ubuntu
indicator-weather package

  1. Bug #821233
  2. Comment #53

Comment 53 for bug 821233

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lurker655 (lurker655) wrote :

Apparently, Yahoo! stopped the free geocode servers. In order to setup a location, the applet looks for Yahoo's WOEID for a particular location from its servers at e.g. http://where.yahooapis.com/geocode?flags=J&location=London%2C+Englang%2C+United+Kingdom&appid=mOawLd4s but this is no longer available - you have to use the BOSS server http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/geo/ which limits to 2000 queries per app per day.

It seems the weather server is still up for the moment, so if you get the WOEID you can still look up Yahoo!'s weather stations - maybe there are other ways of looking up WOEIDs or the app could just be changed to use the new BOSS API (it needs to be re-registered though - the appid=mOawLd4s doesn't work with BOSS).

Also see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15784177/how-to-get-yahoos-woeid-by-location