"VanguardLH" wrote
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| Could be the site doesn't want direct navigation into its subpages.
| That is, to get there means you have to navigate away from a prior page
| of theirs. Direct links aren't allowed. I haven't looked into this
| in-site nav permission thing for a long time.

I see that sometimes. They often don't tell me, but
there are sites that don't allow loading without a referrer.
Or more often, they don't allow downloads because they
want people to download from their website directly.

I wonder if maybe API 0.6 might just be outdated.
I know some of these OSS fanatics hate to get to 1.0,
but .6 is silly. If it were really .6 it shouldn't be online.

I looked into OSM awhile back, when Google wanted
me to give them a chargecard. Their resources seemed
pretty much useless to me. Only Bing seemed to be
comparable to Google.

Off-topic:
Lately I've been thinking it would be nice to write a little
ditty so that I could easily download weather forecasts
and current radar in one click. But it turns out NOAA have
completely messed up their site, using a crazy-bloated
javascript tool to display hard-to-read radar imagery, and
no longer offering simple images for download. I'd be grateful
to anyone who might know a way I can use a REST API to
just make a call and get precipitation images in real time
as GIFs or JPGs.