{"id":1928,"date":"2005-01-28T12:34:22","date_gmt":"2005-01-28T17:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2005-01-28T12:35:06","modified_gmt":"2005-01-28T17:35:06","slug":"if-burlington-95-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/28\/if-burlington-95-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"If Burlington = 95, Toronto = ??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>143; if you&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca\/\">Environment Canada&#8217;s Weather Office<\/a>, that is.<\/p>\n<p>Completely against the concept that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/Provider\/Style\/URI.html\">Cool URIs don&#8217;t change<\/a>, the Weather Office appear to have arbitrarily changed the URLs for their 5 day forecasts. In the old days, if you knew the local airport code, you could find the weather report, for it was at (f&#8217;rinstance): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca\/forecast\/city_e.html?yyz\">http:\/\/www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca\/forecast\/city_e.html?<strong>yyz<\/strong><\/a>. (And yeah, I grew up with siblings obsessed with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rush.com\/\">these guys<\/a>, so I&#8217;ve known Toronto&#8217;s airport code of old.)<\/p>\n<p>Now the same page is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca\/city\/pages\/on-143_metric_e.html\">http:\/\/www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca\/city\/pages\/on-143_metric_e.html<\/a>, and for Burlington, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca\/city\/pages\/on-95_metric_e.html\">&hellip;\/on-95_metric_e.html<\/a>. It doesn&#8217;t make sense, does it?<\/p>\n<p>Canada has weather that can kill you. Somewhere, someone will have scripted a page that scrapes the Weather Office&#8217;s data, and so somewhere I&#8217;m sure there will be a weather report that&#8217;s not updating. I can see no good reason for this change; I&#8217;ll see if Environment Canada has one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>143; if you&#8217;re Environment Canada&#8217;s Weather Office, that is. Completely against the concept that Cool URIs don&#8217;t change, the Weather Office appear to have arbitrarily changed the URLs for their 5 day forecasts. In the old days, if you knew the local airport code, you could find the weather report, for it was at (f&#8217;rinstance): [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[1713,858],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","category-o-canada","tag-weather","tag-web"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-v6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}