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@walidou1er
Oui @idefix37 a parfaitement raison, il faut rester très prudent avec ces stations amateurs. J’en connais qui n’ont rien à envier aux stations officielles, leur propriétaire étant très rigoureux mais c’est loin d’être le cas de toutes, malheureusement,...
Please see the following posts about how the map data for Windy is sourced and displayed from www.openstreetmap.org:
https://community.windy.com/topic/4649/how-to-correct-errors-in-the-base-maps
https://community.windy.com/topic/5564/disputed-territories-on-windy
Please also note: For every language, a different place name label can be displayed, so please choose your correct language and data display.
Further discussion of place name and language issues or disputes should be directed to the OpenStreetMap Forum here: https://forum.openstreetmap.org/index.php > scroll down & select > users: (the relevant country for your dispute and/or question)
In the case of a political dispute please leave such topics out of the Windy forum and instead focus on the discussion of weather.
Thank you for your understanding :)
Hi I'm trying to embed an iframe using the embed widget but every time I choose "Include Spot Forecast" the location coordinates auto change. How can I persist the coordinates?
@Windy3-0
Just enter the coordinates in the search bar in one of these formats:
https://community.windy.com/topic/7290/inserting-coordinates/3?_=1596435741253
For example entering 50°59'30"N10°30'00"W you get:
@Yves70
Thanks for your additions. I think that some basic synoptic features are useful for a wide group of windy customers. Maps with very special parameters for people with a deep understanding of meteorology and thermodynamics would be a waste of (development) time.
In my opinion, the possibility to combine maps from different pressure levels allows to evaluate the weather situation on a synoptic scale and is a good balance between costs and benefits.
The following example combines precipitation with 500hPa geopotential (made with Photoshop) and shows what I mean. Now we can see the cause of the predicted surface weather in the upper air:
Hello @Zoot, it is not possible to turn it off but thank you for the suggestion, we'll consider it in the future.
Maybe you have set your startup location to be determined by the IP address?
Hello @damioncjm, right not it is not possible to set a custom view for a widget but thank you for a suggestion, we'll consider it when developing future features.
@Korina When I look at a weather map, it's 99% of the time because I want to see where rain, storms, snow etc are in relation to my current location. With the default view so zoomed out; that map is basically useless without zooming in several times.
I'm fairly certain this applies to at least 80% of people using the app. Unless most of your users are pilots who are in the air flying several hundred miles.
I think the default zoom level should be ~100 miles. Though this begs the question of why even show a map by default anyway. Most people just want the current conditions/forecast. It doesn't bother me that map shows at startup, but it should have pertinent data from the start.
@ergun_33
ECMWF is not a model, this is an institute making a model called IFS so comparaison is between IFS and ICON.
@Korina is right that you should try and develop your own expertise with both models to understand when one model can be better than the other.
Some tests and statistics trend to tell that IFS, in average, would be better than ICON but those tests and analyses are done for only a few parameters so what is the exact meaning for yourself and the data you want to use,...
Hello @ekalender thank you for the suggestion, we might add this in the future.
We are aware of these locations around the world. However, this problem should be addressed to Open Street Map, since we use their maps and have no control over them.
You can read more on this issue here:
https://community.windy.com/topic/5564/disputed-territories-on-windy
https://community.windy.com/topic/4649/how-to-correct-errors-in-the-base-maps
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