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Re:Popular iPhone apps caught sending user location data to ... by acdha on Saturday September 08, 2018 @08:16AM (#17940552)
Not to the meter but we get plenty of rainstorms where a half mile makes the difference between wet and dry, and Dark Sky’s push alerts are surprisingly useful.
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Re:Popular iPhone apps caught sending user location data to ... by throwaway2048 on Saturday September 08, 2018 @12:39PM (#17941562)
There isn't weather stations every half mile.
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Re:Popular iPhone apps caught sending user location data to ... by acdha on Saturday September 08, 2018 @01:33PM (#17941826)
They use radar and software to predict storm growth and trajectories. Next time you look at a radar map ask yourself the physical size represented by one pixel: in much of the United States it should be something like 150m.
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Re:Popular iPhone apps caught sending user location data to ... by ClassyJacket on Saturday September 08, 2018 @01:22PM (#17941776)
Irrelevant, radar has accuracy at that level.
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