2.20.1 Rain or not? Fix the weather.
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 3:48 pm
Rain or not? User reports to improve weather accuracy.
The weather accuracy is the most important thing in a weather app.
No matter how beautiful and fun the app is.
We have an idea how to make weather reporting better.
Namely rain detection.
Imagine it's cloudy in YoWindow, but raining outside.
Let the user fix this.
She taps "Report rain" button.
YoWindow instantly corrects the weather.
It's raining now in the user's YoWindow.
But it's not the end of the story.
The rain report is sent to YoWindow server.
Around this time many people may report the rain in the area.
Then we can safely broadcast it's raining to the rest of YoWindow users there.
The users are becoming little weather stations reporting whether it's raining or not.
This is an experiment.
The first time we are collecting weather data ourselves.
We have no idea if this thing to work out.
But there's hope it will.
Let's check it out!
The weather accuracy is the most important thing in a weather app.
No matter how beautiful and fun the app is.
We have an idea how to make weather reporting better.
Namely rain detection.
Imagine it's cloudy in YoWindow, but raining outside.
Let the user fix this.
She taps "Report rain" button.
YoWindow instantly corrects the weather.
It's raining now in the user's YoWindow.
But it's not the end of the story.
The rain report is sent to YoWindow server.
Around this time many people may report the rain in the area.
Then we can safely broadcast it's raining to the rest of YoWindow users there.
The users are becoming little weather stations reporting whether it's raining or not.
This is an experiment.
The first time we are collecting weather data ourselves.
We have no idea if this thing to work out.
But there's hope it will.
Let's check it out!
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