FCO travel advice Syndication is retired

We are constantly told that the way forward is web and cloud services but these can sometime be unreliable.  You send time building applications connected to 3rd party web services or data and without notice the service provider decides to call it a day rendering your application useless.

My advice to developers is this - be very careful when building your apps.  It does not matter how big the service provider is - they will sooner or later let you down. Recent example - Yahoo changed their geocoding web service without properly informing developers - the net result was that a lot of application that relied on this service went down.

I had two websites using the FCO travel advice syndication service via the URL (http://fco.innovate.direct.gov.uk/) this service has now been retired but information as to what to do to continue using the service.  With the service retired - my 2 websites will now have to be retired.

So much for using shared data services - Developers be warned!

MG