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Show HN: We're the fastest-growing barometer network in the world [probably]
- cryptoz 15y agoA quick update for HN: when I wrote this blog post (Sunday evening), we were receiving 80 measurements per hour. Since the 2.0 launch, that number has been skyrocketing and we're now sitting at about 300 / hour and climing.
- localhost 15y agoThis is cool. A bit of feedback - it would be really helpful if the linked page said exactly what pressureNet does - I had to read the linked Giz article to understand that it takes barometric readings off of the Xoom's built-in barometric sensor.
- cryptoz 15y agoThanks for that feedback. Writing the post was a difficult mix of trying not to bore my current users while still being accessible to a new audience; I'll see what edits I can make in order to be more clear in the opening. :)
- poutine 15y agoPretty cool that the Xoom has a barometric sensor. Other than this nifty use case what is it used for?
- cryptoz 15y agoSome Google employees have mentioned on the web that the barometers are there to speed up GPS. I understand that GPS is slow when it's alone, but when it has assistance on location guesses it can be much faster. So they can use cell tower triangulation / WiFi spots for your latitude and longitude, and they can get a rough estimate of your altitude through the barometer.
- jvc26 15y agoLooks a fun product - I was wondering what the reason was for putting the source in svn on your servers rather than somewhere like Github?
- cryptoz 15y agoIt's like when you're learning lisp and everyone tells you that you should use emacs even though you're a vim guy. New paradigm in language and new paradigm in editor make the learning process longer. This is my first android app and my first contribution to open source, so I wanted to keep some aspects of development familiar. I do agree github is a good place for this project to live, and we may migrate there sometime.
- jvc26 15y agoA very sound reason! Agree re taking on multiple new techs at once - just makes the dev process more complex and time consuming!
- NathanKP 15y agoVery cool! I did not know that the Xoom had a barometer. You should see if you can work out a partnership with the Dark Skies phone app: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jackadam/dark-sky-hyperlocal-weather-prediction-and-visuali http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jackadam/dark-sky-hyperl... They might be able to incorporate the crowd sourced barometer readings into their local short term weather forecasts.
- moheeb 15y agoI think all of the weather stations available via the Weather Underground (possibly elsewhere) would dwarf this network. Maybe you can use those too?
- unabridged 15y agoCan you turn the point data into a color contour map and place a recently updated map on your home page?