Choose weather forecast provider
On a map-by-map basis, it would be great if we could specify a weather forecast provider (NOAA, windy.com, meteoblue.com, etc). And when we right-click on the map the pop-up menu would include a "Weather" link that would take us to our preferred provider to obtain the forecast for the selected lat/long.
Comments
2 comments
I would also love this. Looks like meteoblue is 100-400 euros a month. I'd be willing to pay a few bucks a month for this feature if needed but not more. Maybe allow users to entire their own API key? You get 5k calls for free.
https://content.meteoblue.com/en/business-solutions/weather-apis
When we click "NOAA forecast" in Caltopo, it looks like Caltopo simply sends us to a URL of the form:
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=X&lon=Y
Where X is the latitude and Y is the longitude of the selected location.
In the same way, I'm hoping that Caltopo could send us to a URL of the form:
https://www.windy.com/X/Y
...which is the format used by windy.com. I imagine other forecast providers (such as meteoblue) also have published URL formats for obtaining forecasts.
My hope is that with this approach, we each use whatever weather forecasting tool we prefer, but Caltopo knows the URL format to use when redirecting to that weather forecasting tool.
Please sign in to leave a comment.