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  How To Use The "Observation vs Forecast" Feature
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  How To Use The "Compare" Feature
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  A difference between reference time and update time
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  @Korina ok
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  How to change default start-up layer on Windy
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  About Windy
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  @Duhlu-0 We are glad to hear it, thank you! :)
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  How to use a route planner
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  @ivo Hi Ivo, tks about the route planner. When I export GPX file and import on Navionics, it's says the file is corrupted. Do y know if it is a bug?
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  What source of weather data Windy use?
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  @jmh2002 @idefix37 @vsinceac Hi all, it seems as a bug, I will let our development team know. Thank you for reports!
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  Political Topics & Posts Are NOT Acceptable
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  Help us translate Windy
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  Description of weather overlays
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  @ivo Thank you. Old topic or not,I learned the dust particles and other air masses from it. exellent list!
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  Can we use pictures, animations or videos from Windy in our TV, webpage, newspaper, project...
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  @Clarence-Fong Hello, you don't need an further permission as long as Windy logo will be present together with pictures. Will your book be available for public? :)
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  How to set up a Windy Alert
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  @jidanni So I don’t know why you still receive alerts if your favorite is not set for an alert. I suggest that you delete this alert (not only suspend it) and set the alert later again. Your list of favorites should look to the picture above.
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  How to Report a BUG - use the new Error Console!
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  I should also mention, I am on IOS 11.2.5, maybe there's a compatibility issue?
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  Disputed territories on Windy
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  How to correct errors in the base maps
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  This following text is from our member jmh2002 Thank you for your post. Unfortunately the place names are not controlled by Windy. 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 :)
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  How can I access historical data?
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  Historical data would be very useful indeed! Especially for winds.
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  Be aware. Russian "Windy" app uses our name and want you to pay for nothing.
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  @Korina Looking at whois history, the domain windy.com was bought from a U.S. company REFLEX PUBLISHING, INC. in 2017, that's at least two years after the other "windy" already used that name in commerce. Looking in the media, windyty was renamed to windy shortly after purchasing the domain windy.com. It also looks like both "windyty" and the Russian (now U.S.) "windy" started approximately at the same time - in the year 2014. But windyty was renamed to windy after purchasing windy.com in 2017. Put chronologically: Two apps Windyty and Windy started independently at the same time in 2014. Windyty purchased the domain windy.com in 2017 from some third party Windyty was renamed to Windy and now we have two Windy's It doesn't look at all that the other windy app is using the name illegally or in bad faith. I would say from their point of view, someone else is using their name/brand.
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  How to read the Surfing spots
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  @idefix37 said in How to read the Surfing spots: @arshjaksd These colors depict the height of waves, more exactly the significant height. The scale in the low right corner of your screen shows the height of the waves according to the colors. You can choose the units, meters or feet. Thanks a lot, I didn't know that,
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  Aggregator Open Data Licence (AODL)
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