[api.met.no] Changes to MetAlerts and NLAroutes

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Dear API users,

a couple of changes coming next week, probably only of interest to a few 
users in Norway. If you don't use any of these you can ignore the rest of 
this mail.


MetAlerts
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 From 1. June there will be some changes in the CAP warnings in MetAlerts:

https://api.met.no/weatherapi/metalerts/1.1/

Some of the area polygons will now be drawn freehand by the meteorologists,
and will be in better agreement with the actual weather situation.
We will still use geocode "county" and "municipalityId" for the affected
administrative areas, but geocodes NUTS3 and iso will no longer be included 
in the CAP file.

We suggest that users of CAP warnings make some extra checks after 1. June 
to ensure their systems are running as intended. If you should find any 
discrepancies, please contact us.


NLAroutes
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Next week, the number of available routes will increase from 27 to 86. Also, 
the time period covered will decrease from 66 hours to 22. This should 
result in a reduction in the number of files in available from 50 to 7-9 per 
route. Also, the number of timegraph locations will increase from 55 to 75.

To assist in sorting and filtering images, we will also be adding a new 
"region" parameter to the available list, e.g.:

https://api.met.no/weatherapi/nlaroutes/1.0/available.json?region=middle

The following regions will be available for both routes and locations:

   north, middle, southeast, southwest, coast, old

After a short grace period to enable you to change your systems, the routes 
and locations in the "old" region will be removed. This is planned to be 
implemented on *1. July*, and will affect the following routes and locations:

16 routes: AAL-ENRT, ENAN-ENAT, ENAT-ENSS, ENBO-ENVR, ENLX-ENBG, ENLX-ENFL, 
ENLX-ENKH, ENLX-ENRT, ENLX-ENSX, ENLX-ENTS, ENLX-XZFR, ENMS-ENRA, ENRA-ENBO, 
ENTC-ENMH, ENTS-ENRT, ENZZ-ENKB

13 locations: ALVDAL, AURLAND, BLAKSTAD, BYKLE, DALSBYGDA, ELVERUM, GULSVIK, 
NORDREISA, NOTODDEN, SPYDEBERG, TANA, ULLENSVANG, VEGGLI

Hopefully this will be understandable. More documentation will come in on 
api.met.no next week when we make the new products available.


Hope you all will have a great summer,

Regards,

Geir Aalberg
API developer