Data sources¶
Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Open-Meteo's free API
is for non-commercial use only. Running Windfenster commercially needs your own
Open-Meteo subscription or a self-hosted Open-Meteo
instance. Airport names and places come from OurAirports
(public domain); which airports send METARs and TAFs, and the reports themselves, from the
Aviation Weather Center (NOAA, public domain). Wind stations and
their 10-minute values, and the ICON-D2 fields of the wind map, come from
DWD Open Data (CC BY 4.0, "Datenbasis: Deutscher Wetterdienst"), as do the DWD stations' past years for
the wind statistics; the airports' past years come from the
Iowa Environmental Mesonet (Iowa State University). Water
levels from PEGELONLINE (Wasserstraßen- und Schifffahrtsverwaltung des
Bundes), credited on the station and point pages that show them and on the sources page; the map
leaves it out of its short credit line. The map's land, borders and places come from
Natural Earth (public domain) or, where installed, from
OpenStreetMap (ODbL) through Protomaps, its labels are set in Noto
Sans (OFL, glyphs from
protomaps/basemaps-assets). The map's
global wind comes from ECMWF open data
(CC BY 4.0), its relief from Mapterhorn (open elevation
data of many national surveys, mostly CC BY; credited on the map). The app lists every source with
what it is used for, its licence and the credit it asks for on its sources page (/sources,
linked from the footer and the map).
| Source | Used for | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Open-Meteo | point forecasts of every model, place search | CC BY 4.0; free API non-commercial |
| DWD Open Data | 10-minute wind stations, ICON-D2 and ICON global fields, station archives | CC BY 4.0 |
| ECMWF open data | the global wind fields (from its Google Cloud copy when data.ecmwf.int is busy) | CC BY 4.0 |
| Aviation Weather Center | METAR and TAF reports, station list | public domain |
| OurAirports | airport names and places | public domain |
| Iowa Environmental Mesonet | airports' past years for the statistics | free use, credited |
| PEGELONLINE | water levels, flow, flood states | open data of the WSV |
| OpenStreetMap via Protomaps | the detailed basemap | ODbL |
| Natural Earth | the basemap without a detailed one | public domain |
| Mapterhorn | relief | mostly CC BY, per survey |
Commercial use
Open-Meteo's free API is for non-commercial use only. Running Windfenster commercially needs
your own Open-Meteo subscription or a self-hosted
Open-Meteo instance (OPEN_METEO_API_KEY, OPEN_METEO_BASE_URL).