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Here in the US I have a free, open source desktop weather app (OpenWeatherMap) that lets me set the location to many German locales. On my phone I have somethin

• PinguTS 7y ago
  This is totally missing the point. The point is DWD is tax financed service to process weather data and to distribute it to the once that need such weather data. As it is pay by taxes, the data is distributed free of charge. The are many services, even the one you just mentioned, that uses exactly that data to distribute it further. DWD build its own app to inform about severe weather conditions as this is also allowed by DWD. Then DWD added just the regular weather data to the exact same app including rain radar and such things, that OpenWeatherMap for example does not provide. DWD got sued for this by the companies who using the exact same DWD weather data and selling it to the customers either by adding ads or by subscription. By the way OpenWeatherMap is providing just basic weather data that is actually allowed to be included into the app for free. We are talk about much more detailed data.
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• Majromax 7y ago
  It's not obvious that those applications are using the data from DWD. It's possible that they're using (for example) global forecasts from the ECMWF (Euopean Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts), or even global forecasts produced by the US. The DWD's contribution would be higher-resolution (and presumably therefore more accurate) forecasts for the region immediately around Germany.