silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours agoNOAA’s vast public weather data powers the local forecasts on your phone and TV – a private company alone couldn’t match ittheconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up1100
arrow-up1100external-linkNOAA’s vast public weather data powers the local forecasts on your phone and TV – a private company alone couldn’t match ittheconversation.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours agomessage-square5fedilink
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·18 hours agoData is a natural resource, a bit between the radio spectrum and mineral rights. Some data should be available to everybody for free as a benefit to society, like how part of the RF spectrum is available for short range radios. Weather data is one of these things because it helps everyone from pilots to farmers to kids wishing for a snow day. Nobody should own the weather.
Data is a natural resource, a bit between the radio spectrum and mineral rights.
Some data should be available to everybody for free as a benefit to society, like how part of the RF spectrum is available for short range radios.
Weather data is one of these things because it helps everyone from pilots to farmers to kids wishing for a snow day.
Nobody should own the weather.