Scientists crowdsource atmospheric data from phones to improve weather forecasts

Re:Scientists crowdsource atmospheric data from phones to im... by dbaupp on Thursday April 18, 2013 @10:52AM (#5570912)

Do you interact much with the OpenStreetMap community? They are a group who are no strangers to putting geotagged information on to the internet, and are, for the most part, keen on open source, so I'm sure you could pick up a few users there.

Also, I recently saw OpenWeatherMap[1], which seems like a project that would be aligned closely with you. I'd be interested to know if you've communicated with them/if you've got some sort of partnership going on?

[1]: http://openweathermap.org/

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Re:Scientists crowdsource atmospheric data from phones to im... by cryptoz on Thursday April 18, 2013 @11:00AM (#5570973)

I have been investigating a switch from Google Maps inside pressureNET to OSM for a while but haven't interacted with them yet. Thanks for the tip, I'll look more into it!

OpenWeatherMap looks fantastic - I definitely want to use their API in pressureNET. Thanks, I hadn't seen this before. We really want to focus our work on collecting large amounts of pressure data, so building top-level UIs and other features like regular forecasts hasn't been priority. But this API looks great.

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Re:Scientists crowdsource atmospheric data from phones to im... by dbaupp on Thursday April 18, 2013 @11:09AM (#5571030)

Nice, looking forward to the switch to OSM.

A message to the `talk' OSM mailing list might attract some attention, although there may be a more appropriate list.

An idea I had was that maybe you could form an arrangement where any OWM apps include PressureNET reporting. (In fact the same for OSM apps, you could talk to some of the developers (there are lists of android apps on the OSM wiki) because I know a few apps already include optional reporting of other things to OpenXYZMap-like projects)

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