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Every dataset behind this site.

MET Norway

Forecasts outside the United States
Creator
The Norwegian Meteorological Institute, shortened MET Norway.
Dataset
Locationforecast 2.0, the complete product, served from api.met.no.
License
Used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), and NLOD.
Also used
Geosatellite 1.4, the whole-Earth infrared frame shown on the satellite view. The imagery originates with EUMETSAT and is free and unrestricted under their data policy.
Changes
Yes. Their symbol codes are reworded into English, temperatures are converted to Fahrenheit when a reader asks for it, and the hourly series is reduced to a current reading and five daily highs and lows. Each day's rainfall is the sum of the six-hour amounts that begin within it, and the day's chance of rain, where they publish one, is the highest any of those blocks reports. The satellite frame is downscaled and re-encoded as a JPEG so a page can carry it; nothing in it is altered.
Warranties
The material is offered as-is and as-available. MET Norway makes no representations or warranties of any kind concerning it, to the extent possible, as set out in section 5 of the license.

NOAA National Weather Service

Forecasts inside the United States
Creator
The National Weather Service, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Government.
Dataset
The National Weather Service API, served from api.weather.gov.
License
Public domain. No license and no attribution is required; we name them because their terms forbid presenting their material as our own.
Changes
Yes. Fahrenheit is converted to Celsius when a reader asks for it, wind speed is converted from miles per hour, and their forecast prose is shortened in the five-day strip.
Also used
GOES-East and GOES-West imagery, from NOAA NESDIS STAR, for the Americas and Asia-Pacific frames on the satellite view. Active warnings and advisories come from the same API's alerts endpoint, shown on the US weather page. Their headlines and areas are carried word for word and are never rewritten or summarized.
Not official
This is not an official government page, and nothing here is endorsed by or affiliated with NOAA or the National Weather Service.

U.S. Geological Survey

Earthquakes worldwide
Creator
The U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, United States Government.
Dataset
The USGS earthquake feeds: magnitude 4.5 and above over the past week (4.5_week.atom) for the browse list, and magnitude 2.5 and above over the past day (2.5_day.atom) for place lookups.
License
Public domain. The feed pages carry no license text of their own; the grant is on the USGS copyrights and credits page, which places USGS-authored data in the US public domain. Credit is requested rather than required, and we carry it on every earthquake we show: Credit: U.S. Geological Survey / Department of the Interior/USGS.
Changes
Their headline and location text is carried word for word and is never rewritten. One thing on the page is ours and not theirs: the severity band beside each earthquake is derived from the magnitude by us, because USGS publishes no severity field.
Not official
This is not an official government page, and nothing here is endorsed by or affiliated with the U.S. Geological Survey.

GeoNames

Turning a place name or US ZIP code into a coordinate
Creator
GeoNames.
Dataset
cities1000, 170,737 settlements above 1,000 people, and the US postal codes file, 41,490 ZIP codes with a place name, state and coordinate, and countryInfo, which names every country and its capital so a destination typed on the Travel pages can be matched to the government advice about it.
License
Used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
Changes
Yes. Names are folded to lowercase without accents for lookup, and only the name, region, country, coordinate and population are used. A ZIP code takes its time zone from the nearest settlement in the city file, so sunrise and sunset show in local time.
Warranties
The material is offered as-is and as-available. GeoNames makes no representations or warranties of any kind concerning it, to the extent possible, as set out in section 5 of the license.
Why local
It is held on our own server. Sending every place a reader types to a geocoding service would leak more than the forecast call it is meant to protect.

DB-IP

Counting page views by country and US state
Creator
DB-IP.
Dataset
IP to City Lite, refreshed monthly.
License
Used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
Changes
Yes, in the sense that almost none of it is read. Two fields are taken from a lookup, the country code and, for United States addresses, the state; the city, the coordinate and everything else in the file are never consulted. The result is added to a running total and the address it came from is discarded.
Warranties
The material is offered as-is and as-available. DB-IP makes no representations or warranties of any kind concerning it, to the extent possible, as set out in section 5 of the license.
Why local
It is held on our own server, and the lookup happens there. DB-IP never sees a reader: we download the database once a month, and no request for it carries anything about anyone visiting this site.

Radar

Rain and snow where a national service publishes it
United States
NEXRAD, served as a map service by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet at Iowa State University. Boundary outlines come from the same service.
Canada
GeoMet, from Environment and Climate Change Canada, under the Open Government Licence.
Nordics
MET Norway radar. Their documentation states there are no usage restrictions on the radar images.
Elsewhere
No radar is shown, because no national service publishes it freely for those places. The satellite view covers everywhere.
Changes
Yes. The layers are composited onto a dark background, scaled, and re-encoded as a JPEG. The measurements themselves are unaltered.

News publishers

AreaGram: one story, and every country it reached
What is taken
From each publisher's own RSS or Atom feed: the headline, the publication time, and the link. Nothing else. There is no field for article text anywhere in the code, so it cannot be kept by accident. Every headline on the page links to the publisher, who will see you arrive.
How it is polled
Directly, by us, with conditional requests, so a publisher with nothing new answers in a few hundred bytes. 132 feeds, listed below from the same file the service reads. Publishers whose feed terms limit use to personal or non-commercial readers, or require permission, are not polled. INT marks a pan-regional outlet.
Grouping
Headlines about the same event are grouped by shared wording. Nothing is translated, so coverage in another language is usually missed; every count on the page is a floor, never a ceiling.
Africa
Asia
Europe
North America
Oceania
South America

U.S. Department of State

Travel advisories on the Travel pages
Creator
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs.
Dataset
The Travel Advisories feed, one entry per country with its advisory level and the date it was last revised.
License
A work of the United States government. Consular Affairs material is public information unless a copyright is indicated on it.
Changes
No. The advisory wording is shown exactly as published, including its level number. We match each entry to a country and keep one entry per country, the most recently revised. Nothing is reworded, summarized or combined with another government's assessment.
Who it is for
The Department writes these for U.S. citizens.
Warranties
The material is offered as-is. We make no representation that an advisory is current beyond the revision date shown beside it.

UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Travel advice on the Travel pages
Creator
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
Dataset
Foreign travel advice, read through the GOV.UK Content API. 226 country documents, each with its alert status, the sentence describing what last changed, and the date.
License
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Changes
No. The alert status and the change note are shown as published. We keep no part of the advice text itself and link to their page for it.
Who it is for
The FCDO writes for British nationals.
Warranties
The information is licensed as-is. The Information Provider does not guarantee its continued supply and excludes all warranties to the extent permitted by law.

Global Affairs Canada

Travel advisories on the Travel pages
Creator
Global Affairs Canada.
Dataset
Travel Advice and Advisories, the machine-readable index published through the Open Government Portal. 230 countries with an advisory level, its wording, whether parts of the country carry their own advisory, and the date.
License
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada.
Changes
No. The advisory wording is shown as published. We read the regional flag from its own field rather than from the wording, so a change to their phrasing cannot change what we say.
Who it is for
Global Affairs writes for Canadians.
Warranties
The information is licensed as-is, with all representations, warranties and liabilities excluded to the extent permitted by law.

U.S. National Park Service

Park alerts and closures on a Travel page for a US city
Creator
National Park Service.
Dataset
The NPS Data API: active alerts, and the park list that says which states each park is in.
License
Material created by the National Park Service is generally in the public domain. No claim to original U.S. Government works.
Changes
No. Alert titles and text are shown as published, trimmed for length with a link to the full notice. We show text only: some images on their site carry third-party rights, and the arrowhead is a protected mark.
Warranties
The material is offered as-is. Park conditions change faster than any feed, and an alert here is not a substitute for the park's own page.

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

Consumer product recalls on the Recall page
Creator
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Dataset
The CPSC Recalls API, published through saferproducts.gov. 9,962 recall notices, each with its title, the hazard, the products covered, the date and a link to the notice on cpsc.gov.
License
A work of the United States government. CPSC recall information is public information and carries no attribution requirement; we name the agency because a reader deserves to know which regulator issued a notice, not because a license demands it.
Changes
No. Titles, hazards and product descriptions are shown as published. We hold every notice, sort them newest first, and match them against the words you type. Nothing is reworded, summarized, scored, or combined with another agency's notices.
What is not taken
Photographs. The API links to product images and we keep none of them, so the page loads nothing from a third party and no image host learns you were reading.

U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Vehicle and equipment recalls on the Recall page
Creator
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Dataset
The flat recall file covering campaigns from 2010 onward: 15,181 recall campaigns and 42,843 distinct combinations of make, model and year, plus the defect description, the consequence, the component and the manufacturer.
License
A work of the United States government, published as open data for any purpose.
Changes
No. The defect and consequence text is shown as published. A campaign is matched to the year, make and model together rather than to those words separately, so a campaign covering a 2022 Ford and a 2023 Honda is not returned for "2022 Honda". Where the file does not state which years a campaign covers, those results are shown apart under their own heading rather than mixed in, because "the years are not stated" is a different answer from "yes, that year".
What we cannot answer
A VIN. This file lists recalls by year, make and model; it contains no vehicle identification numbers, so there is nothing here to look one up against. A VIN typed into the search box is recognized only so the page can say so, and it is never sent anywhere.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Food, drug and device recalls on the Recall page
Creator
U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Dataset
The openFDA enforcement reports, all three: food, drug and device. 86,821 records in total, each with the product description, the reason for the recall, its classification, the recalling firm and the date.
License
A work of the United States government, in the public domain.
Changes
No. Product descriptions and recall reasons are shown as published, trimmed for length in the heading only, with the full text kept and searchable underneath. A description often packs several products as "a) ... b) ... c) ...", and the whole of it is searched so a later item is not lost.
What is not taken
The lot and serial number lists. They are the largest part of the device file by far, they are never displayed, and dropping them as each record is read means they are never held at all.
Why these rows carry no link
An enforcement report has no page of its own that FDA publishes a pattern for, so there is nothing honest to link each row to. Each block links to FDA's own recall search instead. A constructed link that led to the wrong record, or to nothing, would be worse than none.
What FDA says about it
openFDA is a research tool. FDA does not present it as a way to make decisions about medical care, the data may be incomplete or out of date, and it is not a substitute for talking to a doctor or pharmacist.

Health Canada

Canadian recalls and safety alerts on the Recall page
Creator
Health Canada.
Dataset
Recalls and Safety Alerts, the open data export. 33,942 notices with the title, the issue, the products, the issuing organization and the date.
Whose recalls these are
Health Canada publishes this database, and it carries notices from other departments as well as its own: Transport Canada issues the largest single share of them, and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, the medical devices program and others are in here too. That is why the Canadian block on the Recall page is headed by the kind of thing it covers rather than by one department's name, and why every row names the organization that actually issued it. Canadian notices are not a category of their own: each one is filed under products, vehicles, or food, drugs and devices, beside the American notices about the same kind of thing.
License
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada.
Changes
No. Titles, issues and product text are shown as published. We read the issuing organization from its own field rather than from the wording, so a change to their phrasing cannot change what we say about who issued a notice.
Warranties
The information is licensed as-is, with all representations, warranties and liabilities excluded to the extent permitted by law.