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it can be searched by city or by geographic coordinates on earth . forecasts edit weather forecasts can be searched by city or by coordinates . three hourly forecasts are available for up to 5 days while daily forecasts are available for up to 16 days . searching edit the openweathermap geocoding system allows users to select cities by name country zip code or geographic coordinates . it is possible to search by part of city name . to make searching result more accurate city name and country should be divided by comma . maps edit openweathermap service provides lots of weather maps including precipitations clouds pressure temperature wind and many others . maps can be connected to mobile applications and web sites . weather maps can be connected as layers to the wide range of maps including direct tiles wms openlayers leaflet google maps and yandex maps . licensing edit all data that openweathermap provides is used under the terms of a creative common attribution sharealike license . however any significant amount of data access requires a paid subscription . citation needed competitors edit weather underground yahoo weather references edit openweathermap api further reading edit opendatafoundation opening the weather open gis conference 2012 external links edit openweathermap web site openweathermap api retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title openweathermap & oldid 740264413 categories meteorological companiesmeteorological data and networkshidden categories orphaned articles from september 2015all orphaned articlesarticles with a promotional tone from july 2016all articles with a promotional tonearticles needing cleanup from july 2016all pages needing cleanuparticles containing how to sectionswikipedia articles needing rewrite from july 2016all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from july 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 20 september 2016 at 01 26 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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