I'm the developer of the pressureNET app and CEO of Cumulonimbus. We're looking to dramatically increase our measurements per hour (12,000 right now globally, need to get to 100,000 and then 1,000,000 by summertime). Building the pressureNET SDK is our focus right now as it will allow other app developers to include pressureNET in their apps, thus helping us grow quickly. There's also a data access API (which is what the scientists are using) if you're interested. Last month I left my job to build this full time. I have only some savings left - so we're looking for funding. We just got the YC rejection email, but there's a lot of other opportunities out there so I'm quite confident we'll find something.
The most excited part about this right now is the Galaxy S4 coming out in a couple of weeks: It has a barometer, hydrometer and thermometer so we'll be collecting all sorts of new sensor data as well. All of our work is open source on GitHub if you'd like to help out!
Do you interact much with the OpenStreetMap community? They are a group who are no strangers to putting geotagged information on to the internet, and are, for the most part, keen on open source, so I'm sure you could pick up a few users there.
Also, I recently saw OpenWeatherMap[1], which seems like a project that would be aligned closely with you. I'd be interested to know if you've communicated with them/if you've got some sort of partnership going on?
I have been investigating a switch from Google Maps inside pressureNET to OSM for a while but haven't interacted with them yet. Thanks for the tip, I'll look more into it!
OpenWeatherMap looks fantastic - I definitely want to use their API in pressureNET. Thanks, I hadn't seen this before. We really want to focus our work on collecting large amounts of pressure data, so building top-level UIs and other features like regular forecasts hasn't been priority. But this API looks great.
A message to the `talk' OSM mailing list might attract some attention, although there may be a more appropriate list.
An idea I had was that maybe you could form an arrangement where any OWM apps include PressureNET reporting. (In fact the same for OSM apps, you could talk to some of the developers (there are lists of android apps on the OSM wiki) because I know a few apps already include optional reporting of other things to OpenXYZMap-like projects)
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 16.2 ms ] threadThe most excited part about this right now is the Galaxy S4 coming out in a couple of weeks: It has a barometer, hydrometer and thermometer so we'll be collecting all sorts of new sensor data as well. All of our work is open source on GitHub if you'd like to help out!
Data visualization: http://pressurenet.cumulonimbus.ca/
GitHub: https://github.com/Cbsoftware?tab=repositories
Also, I recently saw OpenWeatherMap[1], which seems like a project that would be aligned closely with you. I'd be interested to know if you've communicated with them/if you've got some sort of partnership going on?
[1]: http://openweathermap.org/
OpenWeatherMap looks fantastic - I definitely want to use their API in pressureNET. Thanks, I hadn't seen this before. We really want to focus our work on collecting large amounts of pressure data, so building top-level UIs and other features like regular forecasts hasn't been priority. But this API looks great.
A message to the `talk' OSM mailing list might attract some attention, although there may be a more appropriate list.
An idea I had was that maybe you could form an arrangement where any OWM apps include PressureNET reporting. (In fact the same for OSM apps, you could talk to some of the developers (there are lists of android apps on the OSM wiki) because I know a few apps already include optional reporting of other things to OpenXYZMap-like projects)