"Colin Youngs" wrote in message


http://science.slashdot.org/article....id=95&tid=103&
tid=152&tid=14 or http://makeashorterlink.com/?O29A13AF9

"Wired reports the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration this
week began providing weather data in an open access XML format.
Previously, the data was technically available to the public, but in a
format that's not easily deciphered. How will the free and easy
availability of valuable data like this in XML affect the development of
the web? One example is Tom Groves SVG weather. This type of
visualization of XML data is about to fall within easy reach with
nothing more than a text editor required as an authoring tool. From
March 2005 SVG becomes part of the standard Mozilla/FireFox build. As an
example of how web standards are supposed to work, what more could you
hope to find?" We mentioned the policy change a few days ago. "


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