Ask HN: Why hasn't Waze, Google Maps, or Apple Maps integrated weather overlays?

2 points by bsradcliffe 5 years ago | 6 comments

mtmail 5 years ago |

Apple acquired darksky weather app last year so they have a weather backend

https://www.theapplepost.com/2020/04/01/apple-acquires-popul...

https://maps.darksky.net/@temperature,2021-2-13,18,-32.328,1...

bsradcliffe 5 years ago | |

Yes, and while I love that this happened, I'm also curious if they're actually working to integrate it into Maps, or simply make Weather more accurate of an app.

stephenr 5 years ago |

I’m not sure what you mean specifically but if you zoom to a reasonably small area in Apple Maps it does show the current weather conditions for that area, in the bottom right corner.

aurizon 5 years ago |

Is the weather data supplied as open source, with a requirement that any products that uses it must be similarly open??? A lot of this data comes from NASA. If this is the case, any map maker with a fee basis might not want to give their work product away with that sort of strings on it??

compressedgas 5 years ago | |

Not NASA, NOAA.

aurizon 5 years ago | | |

Thanks, I was not sure of that