OpenWeatherMap
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| Founded | 2012 |
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| Founder | Denn Ukolov, Olga Ukolova |
| Headquarters | London, UK |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Owner | OpenWeather Ltd. |
| Website | openweathermap |
OpenWeatherMap is an online service, owned by OpenWeather Ltd, that provides global weather data via API, including current weather data, forecasts, nowcasts, and historical weather data. The company provides a minute-by-minute hyperlocal precipitation forecast. The convolutional machine learning model uses meteorological broadcast services and data from airport weather stations, on-ground radar stations, weather satellites, remote sensing satellites, METAR, and automated weather stations.
The company has more than 2 million customers, ranging from independent developers to Fortune 500 companies.[1]
The APIs provided by OpenWeatherMap have resulted in repositories on GitHub.[2] The APIs support multiple languages, units of measurement, and industry standard data formats like JSON and XML.
Products and services
[edit]OpenWeatherMap provides weather maps, weather alert services, and weather data. The length of the nowcast reaches 2 hours, the short-term forecast reaches 16 days, and the long-term forecast can reach up to 1 year. 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 display weather conditions on Google Maps.[4]
In 2020, Samsung included OpenWeatherMap into their Galaxy Watch Studio as weather data for the Galaxy Watch.[5]
In 2020, OpenWeatherMap released its weather application for iOS and Android.
OpenWeather provides data for weather risk management on an individual agreement basis. OpenWeather also operates under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license, providing free access to the APIs that include current weather, a minutely forecast for 1-hour, short-term history, weather maps, alerts, geocoding, air quality weather triggers, and weather widgets.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Partners and solutions - OpenWeatherMap". openweathermap.org. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
- ^ "Build software better, together". GitHub. Retrieved 2020-09-18.
- ^ "Weather-based Campaign Management". Google Ads scripts. Google Inc. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
- ^ "Google Maps for Work" (PDF). GitHub. Google. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
- ^ "Weather". Samsung developers. Samsung. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
