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Thanks for sharing your weather project! This isn't really an issue but I was lead here from the Lekker Logic site and saw your post about the weather site using API keys. I was working with the other one and trying to change from a Google API which is free to some extent but still requires ones payment info to be on file which I do not like. I was wondering if you had considered using the Bing Maps Api which is also free and does not require payment info, at least for now:)
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Hi, thanks for your suggestion.
This was my first web project in Java and is not meant to be used in a production environment.
Originally, Google didn't need payment information for using their Maps API (under limits) but I agree with what you said. Hence, I would like to switch to using https://www.openstreetmap.org.
The thing with using third party APIs is that continuity is not guaranteed. Things will eventually break. Take for example the recent acquisition of Dark Sky by Apple: Apple acquires popular weather app Dark Sky and will shut down the Android version. Come 2021 the API (which is also used in this project) will be useless.
I do plan to rewrite the project so that the functionality is not so strongly tied to the underlying APIs used. Thank you for taking interest!
Thanks for sharing your weather project! This isn't really an issue but I was lead here from the Lekker Logic site and saw your post about the weather site using API keys. I was working with the other one and trying to change from a Google API which is free to some extent but still requires ones payment info to be on file which I do not like. I was wondering if you had considered using the Bing Maps Api which is also free and does not require payment info, at least for now:)
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