No tool for adding kite spots to database?
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HI all. As someone who uses windy for a few different sports, I'm disappointed to see that windy's database of kite spots specifically is locked down, and cannot be added too, or downloaded from.
This is in contrast to both paragliding and surfing, which take data from a 3rd party website with publicly available data and an API that can be pulled from.
If windy wants to be protective of it's data, I understand. However, it seems very likely to me that the data came from a pre-existing database. It seems a bit odd to scrape the data from a third party, and then lock it down. Now users cannot either add their own spots, or download data to use in their own applications.
If at least a tool could be provided so that users could add information about their local spots, that would be a good start!
This came up because I realized there's not a single kite spot for the WHOLE of Ireland, and we have users in our England-based kite group chats looking for info for anyone who has been, because they're unable to find any spot information.
Thanks
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@jjamieallen Hello, you are right that this limitation can be annoying. Right now we use static data, that were added in the past and they can't be modified, on the other hand, we still need to mention that this is not one of key features of our app and right now we don't have any plan to improve this.
I will come up with this on our next team meeting and we will see if we decide to make any improvement in this.
