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Re:Court outlaws German Weather Service's free weather app by my_first_acct on Thursday March 12, 2020 @06:49PM (#22562801)
The Norwegian Meteorological Institute provides free, worldwide weather forecast information via an API [1].

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

Re:Court outlaws German Weather Service's free weather app by RobertoG on Friday March 13, 2020 @04:38AM (#22565709)
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 (#22562849)
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 (#22565617)
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 (#22565887)
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/

Re:Court outlaws German Weather Service's free weather app by josinalvo on Sunday March 15, 2020 @02:40PM (#22585574)
You could also implement a cheap mirror of the data, I guess... So that is no excuse
Re:Court outlaws German Weather Service's free weather app by slenk on Thursday March 12, 2020 @08:34PM (#22563574)
So are they paying for the data from the US and other countries? Or relying on free data online?