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For your information, Openweathermap website has a new section dedicated to users who work within the agricultural sector.  It can be accessed from the API list page, and at any given moment, detailed API documentation is available on accumulated weather data (such as temperature and precipitation).
This API service is included in the Historical subscriptions by default with the appropriate time limits. Please contact us if you would like to use this API separately.
We plan to expand the section and continue work in this direction.   Stay connected.
We are ready to answer your questions and will be glad to hear any proposals you might have.

We have prepared several cases for your close acquaintance with our product and we hope you will like it! Let's start from the very beginning

In the current version of VANE Language, we use images from Landsat8 satellite which captures the Earth’s entire surface every 16 days. The satellite makes hundreds of images with a unique name for each one like LC81410552016219LGN00 and a pixel size of 30 meters, each image consists of 11 bands, the size of the uncompressed image is 2 GB.
Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) images consist of nine spectral bands with a spatial resolution of 30 meters for Bands 1 to 7 and 9. New Band 1 (ultra-blue) is useful for coastal and aerosol studies, and also new Band 9 is applicable for cirrus cloud detection. The resolution of Band 8 (panchromatic) is 15 meters. Thermal Bands 10 and 11 provide more accurate surface temperatures and are collected at 100 meters. Approximate scene size is 170 km north-south by 183 km east-west (106 mi by 114 mi).
By default, we get B2, B3, B4, B5, B7, but it is possible to download any other bands

There are many online map services for those who prefer active leisure. For example, here is a map with bike routes http://www.thunderforest.com/maps/opencyclemap/ You can read about it here - https://habrahabr.ru/post/131466
Route maps are extremely useful! Also while choosing a route it would be beneficial to know the weather in a region of your travelling. Surely we can check weather with http://openweathermap.org. And what if we combine a bike route map and weather data from OpenWeatherMap? Eureka!
MapEditor 2.0 can help us with that!

OpenWeatherMap weather app for the smartphone from http://bluesmart.com/, which allows you to track the journey of your baggage worldwide.

Bags embedded with digital technology are capable of amazing things. They can be controlled remotely from your smartphone and come with technology to track your bag, outlets to charge your devices, a built-in scale, and secure remote digital lock. Some say technology has taken one small step for luggage, one giant leap for travelers.

“We have made a decision to integrate OpenWeatherMap for two main reasons. First was the most efficient cost we could get in the market. On the other side, the flexibility to adapt the service/product to our app made it perfect to get the results our developers and designers were looking for to achieve the best user experience.”
(c) Pablo Mendonça, Business Developer, Bluesmart."

And again OpenWeatherMap is here happy to announce our new useful and smart tool Map Editor 2.0! It allows you to create personalized weather maps on the basis of OpenWeatherMap’s data. Map Editor 2.0 provides a great variety of interface tools: you can choose peculiar weather phenomena and adjust its colour display. And like usually all these go in open access.To get this tool simply log in to your account or create a new one. Be ready to become a weather pro!

How much of sunlight is sufficient for vitamin D generation? More than commonly believed. According to recent studies, at least 50% of the world population has deficit in vitamin D. People who live in areas with a small number of sunny days per year and / or a high degree of air pollution are at increased risk of getting vitamin D deficiency and its related diseases. A growing number of studies indicates that vitamin D plays an important role in the prevention of many diseases