That's a good question! what kind of things do you want to be able to do with data? If you're a farmer, maybe this kind of data could help you understand which of your fields are stressed from lack of water, or which varietal of corn performs best during an uncommonly warm or cold growing season. If you're a wanderer than maybe you could quickly survey an entire national park to find yourself a nice open field that's far away from any roads and make that your next camping destination. The time slider is cool too--if you want to go see fire damage close up you could probably find patches that only burned recently. Or apply the same idea to a patch that burned down a few years ago, and check in on its recovery.

Actually that sound like a sweet project. You could go out and take pictures of a freshly burned fire, one that's 1 year old, one that's 2 years old, etc.

I don't think you need to be a coder to use timely data.