red|blue is covered, with a snazzy graphic even, in the New York Times Year in Ideas issue (click here to see it online):

Let's say you somehow find yourself stuck behind enemy lines in the new divided America -- a Democrat in suburban Dallas, say, or a Republican in the East Village. Surely there's someone around who thinks the way you do; but how to locate that lonesome kindred spirit?

Dan Terdiman of Wired News reports on NOAA providing their local weather forecasts via a SOAP interface. A sample page is available here -- with a source input of lat/long.

The article focuses mainly on the role of companies such as Accuweather in lobbying to avoid such general and open access. Sure seems like a simple thing to build to have a direct contact from a GPS position direct to the NOAA server...