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#635862 5-Jun-2012 10:05

MetServiceComms: Hi guys - the daily forecast is a forecast for the day ahead, not for right now (or the middle of the night, as in your case!).

Try the hourly forecasts for short-term use, and of course the rain radar is pretty reliable too!!!

Glad you think it looks good - we're pretty stoked with the reaction thus far.

Cheers
Jacqui

What about the fact it only shows the forecast for my major city, ie Wellington, and not Porirua?

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#635881 5-Jun-2012 10:21

rscole86:
MetServiceComms: Hi guys - the daily forecast is a forecast for the day ahead, not for right now (or the middle of the night, as in your case!).

Try the hourly forecasts for short-term use, and of course the rain radar is pretty reliable too!!!

Glad you think it looks good - we're pretty stoked with the reaction thus far.

Cheers
Jacqui

What about the fact it only shows the forecast for my major city, ie Wellington, and not Porirua?

True, Porirua isn't in the Town and City list.

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#635887 5-Jun-2012 10:23

rscole86:
MetServiceComms: Hi guys - the daily forecast is a forecast for the day ahead, not for right now (or the middle of the night, as in your case!).

Try the hourly forecasts for short-term use, and of course the rain radar is pretty reliable too!!!

Glad you think it looks good - we're pretty stoked with the reaction thus far.

Cheers
Jacqui

What about the fact it only shows the forecast for my major city, ie Wellington, and not Porirua?

You can find hourly forecasts for Porirua by choosing the drop-down Forecast menu (second from left icon at the top of the Home screen) and clicking on the Clock icon - then scroll along to Porirua. You can also find the current temperature for your current location using the Compass icon at the top of the Home screen.

Note that this app is not designed to totally replace metservice.com or our mobile site - it's a multimedia-rich highlights package! :)

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#635889 5-Jun-2012 10:26

tdgeek:
MetServiceComms:
Cheers
Jacqui

Hi Jacqui

Lovely app, but I do have one problem. I am in ChCh and have Location Services on, and also on for the app. But when I start it, it opens up on Wellington. If the phone goes to sleep, and I wake it, the busy icon is revolving, and it changes to ChCh. It appears that its not refreshing Location Services on startup. That being the case, why does it default to Wellington and how can I change that? Or can it refresh to the GPS upon startup?

Apparently this is happening on iPhones not Android, and is a configuration issue that the guys are working on now. Thanks for getting in touch!

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#635896 5-Jun-2012 10:34

Hi Jacqui

Will the rural forecasts be available at any stage?

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#635903 5-Jun-2012 10:37

kiwitrc: Hi Jacqui

Will the rural forecasts be available at any stage?

We have a number of ideas for rural forecasts, so I'll let you know more about this as we progress.

Cheers
Jacqui

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#635919 5-Jun-2012 10:53

On top of Rural Forecasts, are Mountain Forecasts in the Mix?

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#635921 5-Jun-2012 10:55

nzfatmatt: On top of Rural Forecasts, are Mountain Forecasts in the Mix?

Again, we have plans but if I told you ...

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#636020 5-Jun-2012 13:16

MetServiceComms:
nzfatmatt: On top of Rural Forecasts, are Mountain Forecasts in the Mix?

Again, we have plans but if I told you ...

If you told me you'd have to set a weather bomb on me!!

Also is it possible to enable it so the App can be Saved to SD card. I know when the Widget turns up you have to have it on phone for Widget to work, but for people with limited internal storage it is nice to offload things as much as possible to SD card.

I know there are forecasts available for the areas of a region like Wellington, but on the app you cannot get the nowcasts which you can get for the Hutt, Wainui, Porirua etc that are available on the site.

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#636099 5-Jun-2012 14:25

nzfatmatt:
MetServiceComms:
nzfatmatt: On top of Rural Forecasts, are Mountain Forecasts in the Mix?

Again, we have plans but if I told you ...

If you told me you'd have to set a weather bomb on me!!

Also is it possible to enable it so the App can be Saved to SD card. I know when the Widget turns up you have to have it on phone for Widget to work, but for people with limited internal storage it is nice to offload things as much as possible to SD card.

I know there are forecasts available for the areas of a region like Wellington, but on the app you cannot get the nowcasts which you can get for the Hutt, Wainui, Porirua etc that are available on the site.

Hi there - thanks for the feedback, I'll pass that on to the development team.

You can find the sub-regional nowcasts by choosing the drop-down Forecast menu (second from left icon at the top of the Home screen) and clicking on the Clock icon - then scroll through each of the sub-regions. You can also find the current temperature for your current location using the Compass icon at the top of the Home screen.

Cheers
Jacqui

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#638580 10-Jun-2012 19:00

Wow, i have just seen the metservice app on Google play and looked at the screenshots.

Are you guys for real?

For at least 6 months you have been proclaiming a new app and you turn out something that could be slapped together in a few weeks. Its nothing more than a few layout windows, one with the temp for your city, one with a pic of the rain radar and one with a video (I suspect).

Not good at all. Considering all the resources at your disposal all the links into your met service databases, and recorders,and you turn out the mobile equivalent of a brochure with a pretty pic on it, that falls well below the level of other weather apps.

Its nothing more than a modified version of the metservice weather app used on websites. I guess you wowed MetServiceComms with the pretty pics and failed mention how basic it is behind the scenes.

I suspect you contracted out to the office boy to make it at home in his free time.

Very disappointing, well below what you would expect from an organization as big and complex as the metservice, and not even a widget, a basic and simple thing to make, the one thing that people really want.

Is this it?

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#638716 11-Jun-2012 08:43

You are entitled to your opinion of course, but I do disagree. You're not privy to the thought and work that went into the app, and there are many, many people who love it (including me). So you're welcome to not buy it - use our mobile website instead

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#638718 11-Jun-2012 08:50

He should use another weather app, problem solved.

And while I am sure feedback is gratefully recieved, IMO, his post is over the top.

It has the weather, it has various other weather related information, it even has a weather forecast video. And it looks sweet, and the background can be personalised, what more does he want?

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#638828 11-Jun-2012 11:30

I can't say that I am too worried that I hurt some peoples feelings by just telling the truth.

If a single developer had made it I would have said it was a nice little app. But its not, its a big business.

The developer was Wellington's PaperKite, who created the NZ Budget app, which cost the government $59,000 and was downloaded 8600 times. Asked how much the MetService app cost to develop, spokeswoman Nicola Burroughs replied: "A lot!."

So if PaperKite get govt money thrown at them to create a weather app for NZ citizens, shouldn't there be some accountability when obviously the only feedback is mutual backslapping and kudos from people who really don't understand what they are seeing?

Lets not celebrate mediocrity here with sentiment of tdgeek above that "You are lucky to get what you have and if you don't like it then go elsewhere"

Here is Paperkite's blurb from their website....

"PaperKite builds world-class, best-selling mobile applications tailored to client specifications across various platforms. Our team of developers and user interface experts leverage the latest development trends and the freshest techniques in the projects they work on."

This app does not meet their own advertising. BTW I had never heard of paperkite until I started to research this so I don't have an axe to grind with the business.

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#638841 11-Jun-2012 11:56

netspanner: I can't say that I am too worried that I hurt some peoples feelings by just telling the truth.

If a single developer had made it I would have said it was a nice little app. But its not, its a big business.

The developer was Wellington's PaperKite, who created the NZ Budget app, which cost the government $59,000 and was downloaded 8600 times. Asked how much the MetService app cost to develop, spokeswoman Nicola Burroughs replied: "A lot!."

So if PaperKite get govt money thrown at them to create a weather app for NZ citizens, shouldn't there be some accountability when obviously the only feedback is mutual backslapping and kudos from people who really don't understand what they are seeing?

Lets not celebrate mediocrity here with sentiment of tdgeek above that "You are lucky to get what you have and if you don't like it then go elsewhere"

Here is Paperkite's blurb from their website....

"PaperKite builds world-class, best-selling mobile applications tailored to client specifications across various platforms. Our team of developers and user interface experts leverage the latest development trends and the freshest techniques in the projects they work on."

This app does not meet their own advertising. BTW I had never heard of paperkite until I started to research this so I don't have an axe to grind with the business.

Hurt people's feelings?? Don't think so.

And, please do not mis quote or twist others words. As you well know, I did not state or imply that ""You are lucky to get what you have"

I implied that if you do not like it, try another. As you are on a bandwagon here, tell us what, IN DETAIL, is required to make this app, not mediocre.

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