http://www.weatherbonk.com/weather/
The mash-up I found is called weather bonk. It is a combination of traffic and weather and webcams in your chosen city in the United States. It uses Google Maps, Microsoft Virtual Earth, NASA, NOAA Weather Service, WeatherBug, Yahoo Geocoding, Yahoo Maps, and Yahoo Traffic. The utilization of all these allows the mashup to present accurate information for so many cities. I personally think this is really cool and very helpful for planning road trips. You can select the city you live, will pass through and your desired destination and view the fastest route to reach your destination as well as how to pack for the weather in the coming days and whether or not you should anticipate traffic in certain cities along the drive. You can even add "favorite cams" so that a traffic intersection you frequent comes up and you can avoid it if it is congested or if there is a bad accident. This feature makes the site even more interactive than it already is and makes it a Web 2.0 site. Overall I think this particular mash-up is incredibly helpful and I plan on using it in the future.
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That really does sound helpful. Being able to plan for traffic and weather, especially for trips, is important. I'll be looking into using it myself!
This sounds really cool. I think it's really interesting to have a mashup that combines weather information from a bunch of different services combined. You're right that it would be really useful not only for daily weather but also to see the weather in places you are traveling.
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