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We definitely want to expand it beyond the US! But dealing with each country's different network of weather radar is a daunting task.

As far as giving away the algorithm: Unfortunately, it isn't a single algorithm that can be packages nice and neatly. So I'm not sure how that would work.

But, we do plan on developing an API that 3rd-parties could use.

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Since I know it would be impossible for a small team to develop such thing for every different observatory on the world, you may try federating with them one way to another to have them feed the data in the API.

However from my heart if such use is organized I feel ethically bad if the end result is not free of charge or expandable to other platforms.

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