The Midas service works by ingesting data from a large number of different sources, and then making it available to users through a number of different access portals. By offering a number of different portals, it is very easy for you to incorporate the weather information you need into your applications.

Detailed documentation of the various access portals is available to prospective partners upon request.

• Data Portal - for easy access to the numerical data
• GRIB - the industry standard format for forecast data
• OGC Web Map Server - for pre-rendered weather maps
• SOAP / WSDL Server - for SOA and Virtual Earth