[my_first_acct]

The Norwegian Meteorological Institute provides free, worldwide weather forecast information via an API [1].

Perhaps some public-minded German-speaking developer could create a free no-ad app using this data, to provide WetterOnline with some competition.

[1] api.met.no

[RobertoG]

Is it necessary to create a new app? Because it seems to me that the source code of the current app its already owned by the Germans and should be made available.

[tyfon]

You can also use the webpage and mobile app "yr.no" for free global forecasting.

[Symbiote]

To reduce costs, they don't particularly encourage use outside Norway / Nordic countries.

Last time I read the API documents, they were only in Norwegian for this purpose.

Edit: it seems this is no longer the case; at least I can't find it on the site. But my Norwegian skills are practically non-existant.

[sveniv]

English info on the yr.no data access api is here: https://hjelp.yr.no/hc/en-us/categories/200450271-About-Yr-t...

This data is provided by the Norwegian meteorological institute: https://www.met.no/en/free-meteorological-data

There is also a private Norwegian weather provider, StormGeo: https://www.stormgeo.com/

[josinalvo]

You could also implement a cheap mirror of the data, I guess... So that is no excuse

[slenk]

So are they paying for the data from the US and other countries? Or relying on free data online?