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It speaks poorly of an industry if there is a market for a toll gate to mush things into a common format. It appears the plan with pricing doesn't include the
by jws 4y ago
It speaks poorly of an industry if there is a market for a toll gate to mush things into a common format.
It appears the plan with pricing doesn't include the weather data, just the transformation. You still need keys to the ultimate source.
I do feel the pain though. I moved to WeatherKit REST API when they stopped Dark Sky. The tiny amount of calls I make were free and easy in Dark Sky. In WeatherKit it is still free, but I had to figure out how to have my server generate JWT tokens which is a grade 2 pain in the ass on the 0 to 10 scale. (Also, the APIs are still marked as "beta". If you are killing a service and replacing it with a new one, maybe nail down that new one before cut over day? They are also sadly vague, the kind of stuff a programmer jots in because comments are required. If there is 3mm of rain followed by 50mm of snow, what does the precipitationAmount field have? The documentation says "The amount of precipitation forecasted to occur during the day, in millimeters.". Thanks, 12 words to tell me nothing. )
- calsy 4y agoWeatherKit and Dark Sky just mush data provided by government sources across many countries into a common format.
- Moru 4y agoUsually precipitation is whatever water came down in melted form. You have to calculate what that would be in snow. Which is not easy and only will give you a guesstimate.
- ocimbote 4y ago> It speaks poorly of an industry if there is a market for a toll gate to mush things into a common format. I can't think of a single industry I know of that has successfully merged their proprietary APIs. And if I'm thinking a bit harder... Some of them did not even try.