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| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Openly licenced | Yes | |
| In an open and machine-readable format | JSON, XML | |
| Downloadable at once | Yes | A Met Office tutorial indicates the DataPoint service can now be used to download "a complete list of the forecasts for every location in the UK at each available timestep" in either XML or JSON format. I have interpreted that as meaning the whole dataset is downloadable at once. (This obviates the need to revisit last year's debate about whether the separate API on Azure Marketplace really supplies bulk data.) |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| Publicly available | No | Registration required. |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| findable | 4 | |
| findable_steps | No steps as I was previously aware of the data source and its location. Met Office's DataPoint service is the first Google result returned based on a search for "uk weather forecast data", so should be reasonably easy for unfamiliar users to find. | Met Office's DataPoint service is the first Google result returned based on a search for "uk weather forecast data", so should be reasonably easy for unfamiliar users to find. |
| licence_url | https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/legal/tandc#Use-of | The Open Government Licence applies to this data. |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 2 | Availability of the data only in machine-readable formats via an API imposes a technical learning curve and therefore reduces the general accessibility of the data. Met Office could for example make the data more accessible by publishing a daily CSV extract of the dataset. |
| collector_name | Met Office | |
| Controlled access | Yes | |
| characteristics | Temperature average, Wind speed, Wind direction, Precipitation Amount, Precipitation Probability, Forecast for current day and four following days | The data source provides "screen temperature" (the ambient temperature without the effect of wind chill or heat from the sun) and doesn't seem to provide separate data for averages vs extremes. The data source provides probability of precipitation based on precipitation of at lease 0.1mm but does not seem to estimate amounts. |
| location | https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/datapoint/product/uk-3hourl - DataPoint UK 3-hourly site-specific forecast. Described as "a quality controlled forecast out to 5 days for more than 5,000 locations." | Described as "a quality controlled forecast out to 5 days for more than 5,000 locations." |
The submission is valid. Precipitation amount was added as a characteristics. The dataset describes it as "Weather Type" (alongside other weather types like sunny, clouded, etc.) Thank you, Owen Boswarva, for contributing to the Global Open Data Index.