Re:Court outlaws German Weather Service's free weather app
by RobertoG on Friday March 13, 2020 @04:38AM
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Is it necessary to create a new app? Because it seems to me that the source code of the current app its already owned by the Germans and should be made available.
Re:Court outlaws German Weather Service's free weather app
by tyfon on Thursday March 12, 2020 @06:54PM
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You can also use the webpage and mobile app "yr.no" for free global forecasting.
Re:Court outlaws German Weather Service's free weather app
by Symbiote on Friday March 13, 2020 @04:19AM
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To reduce costs, they don't particularly encourage use outside Norway / Nordic countries.
Last time I read the API documents, they were only in Norwegian for this purpose.
Edit: it seems this is no longer the case; at least I can't find it on the site. But my Norwegian skills are practically non-existant.
Re:Court outlaws German Weather Service's free weather app
by sveniv on Friday March 13, 2020 @05:28AM
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English info on the yr.no data access api is here:
https://hjelp.yr.no/hc/en-us/categories/200450271-About-Yr-t...
This data is provided by the Norwegian meteorological institute: https://www.met.no/en/free-meteorological-data
There is also a private Norwegian weather provider, StormGeo: https://www.stormgeo.com/
Perhaps some public-minded German-speaking developer could create a free no-ad app using this data, to provide WetterOnline with some competition.
[1] api.met.no