{"id":2677,"date":"2013-03-15T14:23:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T19:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2013-03-15T14:23:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T19:23:44","slug":"mobiles-crowdsourced-weather-measurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/03\/15\/mobiles-crowdsourced-weather-measurement","title":{"rendered":"Mobiles &#038; crowdsourced weather measurement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/8559534421\/\" title=\"pressureNET by byte, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8390\/8559534421_34129d10d0_n.jpg?resize=180%2C320\" width=\"180\" height=\"320\" alt=\"pressureNET\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/a>I shared this from The Economist quite some time back: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/science-and-technology\/21571384-how-use-mobile-phone-networks-weather-forecasting-counting-raindrops\">Counting raindrops<\/a>. Here is an example of folk using mobile phone networks themselves for weather forecasting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today I stumbled upon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cumulonimbus.ca\/\">Cumulonimbus<\/a>. They have an Android application called <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=ca.cumulonimbus.barometernetwork\">pressureNET<\/a>, which makes use of the barometer in some Android phones. This is user-contributed atmospheric pressure readings, embedded on a Google map. It is available to view at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pressurenet.cumulonimbus.ca\/\">http:\/\/pressurenet.cumulonimbus.ca\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cumulonimbus.ca\/the-galaxy-s4-has-a-barometer\/\">seems<\/a> many devices have a barometer as well. Samsung leads the pack with the Galaxy S3, S4, Note, Note II, Galaxy Nexus. It also comes with the Nexus 4 &amp; Nexus 10.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Mobiles%20%26%20crowdsourced%20weather%20measurement&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F03%2F15%2Fmobiles-crowdsourced-weather-measurement&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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Here is an example of folk using mobile phone networks themselves for weather forecasting.\u00a0 Today I stumbled upon Cumulonimbus. They have an Android application called pressureNET, which makes use of the barometer in some Android phones. This is user-contributed atmospheric pressure readings, embedded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Mobiles%20%26%20crowdsourced%20weather%20measurement&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2013%2F03%2F15%2Fmobiles-crowdsourced-weather-measurement&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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Many people say these\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":782,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/14\/chris-blizzard-on-mozilla","url_meta":{"origin":2677,"position":5},"title":"Chris Blizzard on Mozilla","date":"14\/4\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Chris Blizzard, now working at Mozilla and Linux integration, gave a most interesting talk, about Mozilla, and their new mobile initiatives. 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