https://github.com/danwild/wind-js-server

Service to expose Grib2 wind forecast data as JSON
https://github.com/danwild/wind-js-server

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Service to expose Grib2 wind forecast data as JSON

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/danwild/wind-js-server
• Owner: danwild
• License: other
• Created: 2016-04-07T02:29:28.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-06-13T16:49:53.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-10T15:21:40.862Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: data-visualisation, data-visualization, grib, grib2json, weather, wind
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: http://danwild.github.io/wind-js-leaflet/
• Size: 14.4 MB
• Stars: 144
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 74
• Open Issues: 15
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# wind-js-server [![NPM version][npm-image]][npm-url] [![NPM Downloads][npm-downloads-image]][npm-url]

Simple demo rest service to expose [GRIB2](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRIB) wind forecast data 

(1 degree, 6 hourly from [NOAA](http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/)) as JSON. 


Consumed in [leaflet-velocity](https://github.com/danwild/leaflet-velocity).

Contains a pre-packaged copy of [grib2json](https://github.com/cambecc/grib2json) for conversion.

Data Vis demo here: http://danwild.github.io/leaflet-velocity

Note that this is intended as a crude demonstration, not intended for production use.

To get to production; you should improve upon this or build your own.

## install, run:

(assumes you have node and npm installed)

```bash

# from project root:

npm install

npm start

```

## endpoints

- **/latest** returns the most up to date JSON data available

- **/nearest** returns JSON data nearest to requested

	- $GET params:

		- `timeIso` an ISO timestamp for temporal target

		- `searchLimit` number of days to search beyond the timeIso (will search backwards, then forwards)

- **/alive** health check url, returns simple message

## License

MIT License (MIT)

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[npm-url]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/wind-js-server

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