Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky
by Godel_unicode on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @05:24PM
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Have you considered using the National Weather Service API directly? To someone with only a casual interest in this stuff it seems like it has what I would want, curious about shortcomings compared with the many commercial offerings? Especially considering it's their data that e.g. DarkSky resells.
The Dark Sky API combines lots of data sources, and its weather data is not limited to the US. I use it for cities all around the world. The US National Weather Service API cannot replace it.
Do you have any idea what other data sources they use? How do they do their minute-by-minute precipitation forecasts
Sorry, I didn't see your question until now. Unless I'm mistaken, they had a list of their sources somewhere on their website that I saw a few years ago. I don't think they said where their minute-by-minute came from, but I'm quite sure they calculated that data themselves.
How does Darksky do it's minute-by-minute precipitation forecasts, though? I only see hourly forecasts in the API. I'm guessing they are doing some of their own forecasting.
Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky
by bradstewart on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @06:39PM
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Your location data.
I just wish they kept the API running though.