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“Everyone in the weather space is familiar with the strength of Weather Underground and its innovative method of presenting weather data. Weather Underground will add a great complementary, brand...
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If you have an iPhone, The Weather Channel 4.0.0 app update includes a new “Social” tab at the bottom that provides access to weather related tweets from the surrounding area.
The Weather...
document Distributed KnowledgeThe idea behind Metwit is that crowdsourced weather updates can be more trustworthy and accurate compared to traditional weather forecasts that can be unrefined and relatively inaccurate. Users can...
document Distributed Knowledge, ToolsOurcast provides detailed, hyperlocal forecasts based on a new type of statistical modeling that uses real-time radar data and weather station readings provided by 20,000 volunteers across the U.S....
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Founder Julia LeStage tells that each crowdsourced Weathermob report attracts an average of 2.5 comments. Within the app, you can see local weather reports in your location, or search for reports...
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According to a blog post by Co-Founder Jeff Masters;
"The plan is to make both wunderground.com and weather.com stronger, by sharing content and infrastructure. Many Weather...
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The crowdsourcing platform also benefits from inheriting the large database of users who have downloaded previous versions of SkyMotion.
"We're addressing issues that have plagued...
article Distributed KnowledgeScientists at oxford University are today announcing the 'Old Weather" project which uses crowd-sourcing technology, volunteers and British naval ships from the World War 1 era....
document Distributed KnowledgeScientists are now "crowdsourcing" the transcription of various historical ship weather logs(which, because handwritten in cursive, cannot be read
by Optical Character Recognition...
document Distributed KnowledgeOld Weather is a Zooniverse Project . This is a collaboration between a diverse collection of people and institutions.
document Distributed KnowledgeAmong the meteorological contenders are Weddar and Weathermob. In Weddar, you answer the question "How does it feel?" with a rating out of three for how cloudy, rainy, windy and snowy the...
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Spain-based Spotfav has combined the idea of crowdsourcing weather reports with webcam technology to create a new weather reporting platform.
Spotfav aims to provide weather reports for...
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The Weather Channel has acquired pioneering online weather service Weather Underground for an undisclosed sum, the companies announced today. The deal is expected to close in several weeks.This...
article ToolsAnother startup on the scene is seven-month-old Metwit, a social weather app developed at Dubai startup accelerator SeedStartup. Headquartered in Italy, founders Mike Ruini, Duccio Catalioto,...
article Distributed KnowledgeThe atmospheric scientists at the University of Washington try to crowdsource data using PressureNet, a free app that works on certain Android devices. Cliff Mass, a UW professor of atmospheric...
article Distributed Knowledge, ToolsCrowdsourcing information through millions of cell phones equipped with sensors is a brilliant way to get information that would otherwise be inaccessible or expensive to collect. The possibilities...
article Distributed KnowledgeUsing crowdsourcing, the mobile Precipitation Identification Near the Ground app collects geographic, winter precipitation data from users. The mPING app also links to a map showing weather reports...
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One of the unique elements of the crowdsourcing tool - Weendy is how it turns extreme sports — already a clubbable pursuit — into something of a social network in itself. Those who sign up to...
article ToolsLast week, NOAA announced the launch of their new smart phone app called mPING which invites thousands of people throughout the continental U.S. to send in weather observations so as to compile a...