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Old 10-25-2005
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To get that kind of weather data, probably requires you to subscribe to a subscription service.

The data would be very time dependent - how would you display this in MapPoint?

The accuracy of the data also changes on a daily basis. Just look at Wilma - when it was just about to come ashore on the Yucatan, ALL of the computer models disagreed with each other and the humans produced the firecasts themselves. It was only after it came ashore that the models agreed on the "fast zip across the Caribbean" although the timing predictions varied.

So you are going to need to update your routes at least every 6 hours, and there would be a huge errors in the predictions. I think you are better of subscribing to a weather bulletin service (or look at Wunderground.com for a good virtually-free service) and allowing humans to determine if forecasts should be interpreted as "avoid Florida", "take snow chains just in case", etc



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