[ale] Weather App (was WAY [OT] but geeky - how do I calibrate GPS barometric altimeter)

[Chuck Peters]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Robert Reese <ale at sixit.com> wrote:
>
> Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 4:07:51 PM, you wrote:
>
> > I'm only using WeatherBug on my Android tablet.  Have you heard of
> > problems with that?
>
> I haven't tried it, but I don't trust them one bit; they used schools to
> encourage parents to install the WeatherBug spyware on home computers, as
> well as local media - even the Weather Channel got into the spyware weather
> app from WeatherBug.
> >  Does Weather Underground have an Android app?
>
> As a matter of fact, they do.
>
>
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wunderground.android.weather&hl=en
>
> I trust them.  I even chose to get a premium account so I can get priority
> radar and satellite images during severe weather.  It's one of the best $10
> I spend each year, IMO.  Check out their Wundermap.
>

Did you know that Wunderground was bought by the Weather Channel?

 http://www.wunderground.com/about/pr/news.asp?date=20120702

I'm not sure how that affects the app, but Weather Channel is owned NBC
Universal and in my opinion the Weather Channel is not better for it.  We
will see what is means for the Wunderground, but it is probably not good
for the long term.

Most of the time I just go to weather.gov, and it has
http://mobile.weather.gov/.


Chuck
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20130228/fb5814d5/attachment.html>