Weather RSS and the Dangers of Screen Scraping
LaughingMeme: Weather RSS and the Dangers of Screen Scraping
Kellan over at LM describes why screenscraping sucks: Obscure URLS, inconsistent HTML, poor data, etc etc.
I describe what needs to be done:
The real way to do this is to get hired by the NOAA and be given a license to do whatever you want with their data. Because this is highly unlikely (ATTN NOAA: Hire me plz), the best we can do for now is to manually decode metar data that we directly download from the NOAA.
RSS could bring NOAA into the 21st century, they just need to realize it.