Metarize

Metarize is a powerful tool to consult two iconic aviation weather products — METARs and TAFs — and use them for a variety of missions beyond aviation. It leverages to the fullest these amazing weather products: - Their compact, very quick to read format - Their extremely high quality, on which millions of lives depend - Their global availability in a standard format … and provides features to make them useful for a variety of critical missions - Push notifications - Discovery of local stations (using GPS or a map location) - Monitoring and reporting of the integrity and recency of the data - Offline support – refresh data in the background so it’s available to consult when offline - Part 107 readiness indication - Decoding assistance, to help learn the format (it’s well worth the effort!) - Home screen widget for quick access More subtle design goals – some of these are still actively being worked on: Chain of trust – report any element that puts the integrity or recency of what it displayed in question Latency – use the lowest latency source possible Resiliency – make the app resilient to failures Security-minded – require no permissions beyond internet access (optionally use more permissions, see below) Tactical-friendliness – low light color scheme Permissions: - Internet – required, to download data - Location – optional, to automatically display nearby stations - Notifications – optional, for push notifications Background-fetching (offline support) – this feature makes the app periodically (every 15 minutes) download an up to date METAR or TAF for each favorite station/product combination. If the device goes offline, the last data fetched will be available.