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Thanks for the fast response! It's pretty amazing to see the map, and see how many people are contributing data to this. In terms of the data that is submitted

by xur17 14y ago

Thanks for the fast response! It's pretty amazing to see the map, and see how many people are contributing data to this. In terms of the data that is submitted: 1) Is my location data submitted, and if so, how accurate is it? 2) Is this data anonymized in some way (are all contributions linked to a single person - because this would basically give you my location data)? 3) The public sharing option is a little bit confusing - does this share with PressureNET, researchers, and forecasters in addition to the public?

cryptoz 14y ago
1) Yes, your location is submitted. We just started collecting location accuracy information with this release a couple of days ago. So I'm not sure yet exactly how accurate this is, but we'll be learning about that in the coming days and weeks. 2) For the map view in the app and for our public site, yes the data is anonymized. However, we do keep a unique ID in the database. This is required in order to calibrate the sensors, filter out noise and have good quality control. 3) I forgot to add better descriptions / Help screen to this update. Sorry about the confusion. The Public option is not in use yet, but will be soon when we finish our livestream API. The idea is that yes, the data will then be available to us at Cumulonimbus, to researchers and forecasters, and also to the public at large. For the Public API, we do plan to anonymize the data but we haven't decided exactly how yet (hence it's not available yet). Thanks for your questions!