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Historical weather data goes over 40 years. In 2015, Google chose OpenWeatherMap as a weather data provider for its bid-by-weather script in Google Ads, which serves the ads based on the local weather conditions, such as temperature, humidity, and cloudiness. [3] In the same year, Google published documentation on how to use OpenWeather data to ...
The company developed WeatherBug, a mobile application of their service for Android, iOS and Windows Phone platforms. [11] [12] Spark is a component of the WeatherBug app that reports where the nearest lightning strike is to the user based on data from the Total Lightning Network (run by WeatherBug's former owner, Earth Networks) and your phone's GPS location.
Windy is a Czech company providing interactive weather forecasting services worldwide. The portal was founded by Ivo Lukačovič in November 2014, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] initially focusing on wind animation. It has since expanded to include various essential meteorological parameters, such as temperature , pressure , relative humidity , cloud base, and ...
There was an app developed for Roku devices, which has been deleted. [27] In February 2015, Weather Underground released an iOS app called Storm. [28] This app is universal, and can be used on both iPhone and iPad. Other apps by Weather Underground include WunderStation [29] for iPad and WunderMap [30] for iOS and Android. In 2017, Weather ...
The app became available in the Google Play store on 10 December 2014. [18] On 12 February 2015, a stable version of HERE Maps was released on the Google Play store. [19] The website wego.here.com (formerly here.com) evolved out of the maps.ovi.com and later maps.nokia.com site and provides the web companion to the HERE suite.
Some of the free software mentioned here does not have detailed maps (or maps at all) or the ability to follow streets or type in street names (no geocoding). However, in many cases, it is also that which makes the program free (and sometimes open source [ 1 ] ), avoid the need of an Internet connection, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and make it very ...
Research has been growing significantly since the 2010s, and weather-drone data may in future be added to numerical weather models. [45] [46] Modern weather predictions aid in timely evacuations and potentially save lives and prevent property damage. Commerce provides pilot reports along aircraft routes, [47] and ship reports along shipping routes.
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...