Where do weatherbug, foreca get their data from?

Posted by marnujra on Thursday February 25, 2010 @02:14AM
from the self-post dept.

Especially for countries like India? Is this data available for free? Thx!

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Re:Where do weatherbug, foreca get their data from? by robbeatz on Thursday February 25, 2010 @03:11AM (#1150271)

"...WeatherBug manages and operates the world's largest proprietary weather network with over 8,000 WeatherBug Tracking Stations and more than 1,000 cameras strategically placed..." http://weather.weatherbug.com/about-us.html

I'm not sure where foreca gets its data from.

There are a few weather APIs on programmableweb

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Re:Where do weatherbug, foreca get their data from? by jonah on Thursday February 25, 2010 @03:05AM (#1150265)

India Meteorological Department? http://www.imd.gov.in/

Netwings? http://www.netwingsinfotech.com/weather-data-services.html

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Re:Where do weatherbug, foreca get their data from? by marnujra on Thursday February 25, 2010 @03:58AM (#1150317)

Both of these services have over 2K stations in India. IMD doesnt seem to have more than 300 of them.

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