Thanks! 1. I'm definitely just starting simple. My first goal that makes sense to target is: a) quality control algorithms for the data that make b) it possibl

Thanks! 1. I'm definitely just starting simple. My first goal that makes sense to target is: a) quality control algorithms for the data that make b) it possible to do data assimilation into WRF. I would not expect this project or myself to do the actual WRF data assimilation, that would probably require outside help. For example, I know that this process can be done with the barometer data, but it is difficult to do this for a couple reasons. First is user privacy, most methods of using this data require a user id attached to the lat/lng and barometric pressure. This isn't great, it's a log history of user's location. So that's why I'd like to make 'virtual weather stations', which would be my first target. Perhaps in the distant future this project could span its own predictions/models but I don't have a particular plan for that. 2. Well as I alluded to above the raw data is sensitive to user privacy, so the ideal system deletes that data after a few days of processing/QC control, hashing, etc to preserve as much as we can of the useful information while deleting the user's private location history. This makes the dataset a lot less monetizable, since fewer weather-industry folks who'd like to integrate with WRF would be interested in the data, given how far removed my final product would be from the source barometric pressures (virtual weather stations are a brand-new abstraction and they have not been tested). I'd say that at first the data that I make in terms of 'virtual weather stations' may be an open API, but it depends on how much that costs to run. The project is supposed to make money from users buying it: it has a $1/month subscription optional to show users how to directly financially support the project. Any future sales of weather data would be a long way away and would require me to prove out its usefulness, something that hasn't been done with 'virtual weather stations' yet (but has with the raw barometer data, darn) Great questions, thanks!