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Whither Met Office openness
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Whither Met Office openness
I’m currently in the process of putting together a unit test for an open source project. I wanted to use real met office temperature data, ideally from around York or Leeds.
I emailed the met office to enquire where I could find the data I require. The met office, being a publicly funded body, I naturally assumed the data would be publicly available.
I couldn’t have been more wrong. Here’s the reply I received:
The free information is a set of monthly averages for temperature, sunlight and rainfall going back to 1998. Why is data collected by a publicly funded body not freely available? Think of the innovation that could be unleashed in data visualisation if the raw data were set free.All free information regarding data can be found at the following webpages http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/index.html
If you wish to purchase data please be aware that it would be a chargable service with data quotations starting from £250+VAT
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