Interactive Marine Forecast Map

[geoffschultz]

I've just finished implementing an interactive marine forecast map at http://www.geoffschultz.org/weather_map.php. You can click anywhere on the map (over water) and a new window will appear showing you the forecast for that position.

Separately, I've also added links to all of my logs which take you to a forecast for that location.

The data for this forecast was provided for free by World Weather Online. Note that I've seen large descrepencies between their forecast and other sources, so take it as a simple datapoint and use your own judgement to determine its accuracy.

There was lots of learning involved here...Javascript, XML, JSON. It's been fun! I'm not happy with the data and will probably do a mashup of multiple data feeds to get better results.

-- Geoff

 

[Phil Herring]

Very cool! Nice work!

 

[Sumner]

Thanks, that is really nice,

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[Merlin Clark]

Very cool, thanks Geoff!

 

[nightowle]

awesome

clean, easy to use, and comes up immediately with wind data. Just what i'm always looking for here in Seattle!

thanks much for doing this!

Brad

 

[geoffschultz]

Thanks for the comments. I just added moon rise/set to the output. I'm starting on a mashup of multiple data sources right now.

 

[MJWarner]

Bookmarked! Thanks for the hard work, and for the sharing of it Geoff. I am looking forward to using it this season in the Bahamas.

 

[Tim R.]

Nice app Geoff. Now you just need to develop an Android and IOS version.

 

[geoffschultz]

I've just completed updating my weather page (http://www.geoffschultz.org/weather_map.php) so that you can view either a marine forecast, Wunderground forecast, radar image, or visual/IR satellite images of an area just by clicking on a google map. You can also select each of the units of measure that you want the forecast to be displayed in.

 

[PrincessoftheLake]

Very Cool! Thank you.

 

[justsomeguy]

And it even works on my ancient computer! Thanks very much!

 

[kloudie1]

Tres Cool, Goef.. Thanks

 

[geoffschultz]

One more addition: It now includes water temperature data from NOAA for large sections of the world and the Great Lakes.

 

[geoffschultz]

Today's addition: An interactive Tides widget primarily for the US and a few places in the Caribbean and Pacific.

http://www.geoffschultz.org/weather_map.php

-- Geoff

 

[geoffschultz]

Today's addition: NOAA/NWS weather fax products. Right now it's just the Atlantic/ Caribbean/ Gulf of Mexico, but since this this database driven, all that I need to do is to complete entering the chart information for the Pacific and Alaska into the database.

http://www.geoffschultz.org/weather_map.php

 

[geoffschultz]

During periods where I haven't been out doing stuff with the generator, playing with the chain saw, or hosting people without power, I've been continuing to work on my weather mashup. I've made significant progress in that I've added most of the NOAA/NWS weather fax products. The map now shows outlines of the charts that are available. As someone who uses the NWS Weather Fax web site all of the time, I must say that it's really quite enlightening to be able to just click on a map to display all of this information. Much more intuitive.

I'll add the upper wind charts when I have a chance to geo-code them. You'll also note that I've add the UK Met Office graphics to the map.

http://www.geoffschultz.org/weather_map.php

 

[rgranger]

Bookmarked it...

Fantastic

Thanks,

 

[FourPoints]

Doesn't work on android devices, nothing shows up when I click on the map... how about a mobile android app?

 

[geoffschultz]

Doesn't work on android devices, nothing shows up when I click on the map... how about a mobile android app?

Do Google Maps work on Android? This is just Google Maps with some additional Javascript.

-- Geoff

 

[geoffschultz]

I've now added Windfinder.com as a weather source for my weather mashup. It's one of my favorite sources and they just told me how to do it.