National Weather (Web) Service

NOAA is doing XML!  It does my heart well to see our government going the SOAP route.  Get your official NOAA forecast.

And as Kent mentions, although they are SOAP, they decided they would use RPC/Encoded instead of Document/Literal.  Oh well.  At least they aren't encoding their XML as a string.

   -Matt

Comments

• Anonymous
  December 06, 2004
  While it's great to see them going down the SOAP route, I was a little bit upset to see that they don't really define a schema for their results. The operations I looked at return big blobs of XML as xs:string. It would be nice to get some more visibility into those results...but some SOAP is definitely better than no SOAP at all :)
• Anonymous
  December 06, 2004
  Some time ago I published ASP.NET user control that uses NOAA Web service. Dowloadable from here
  
  http://blogs.msdn.com/mikhailarkhipov/archive/2004/08/12/213963.aspx
  
  
• Anonymous
  December 08, 2004
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• Anonymous
  December 22, 2004
  I really hope you figured out your proxy issue. I can't get connected to the service using .net. It hang during NDFDgen. Any suggestions? Thanks.
• Anonymous
  January 02, 2005
  Apparently NOAA WS broke some time ago.<br><br><a target="_new" href="http://weblogs.asp.net/mikhailarkhipov/archive/2005/01/02/345516.aspx">http://weblogs.asp.net/mikhailarkhipov/archive/2005/01/02/345516.aspx</a><br>