[Geoserver-users] Displaying weather data with GeoServer question

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I'm using GeoServer to display features stored in my Oracle db. Has anyone
tried using GeoServer to display weather data? I'm thinking there might be a
way to get weather data from weather.gov and either store it in a db or have
GeoServer access the data directly. I'm curious if someone has done this and
the best approach to take.

thanks
Dan
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I should have added, I'm thinking mainly about radar data, i.e. storms,
hurricanes.

Dan MacLeod wrote:

I'm using GeoServer to display features stored in my Oracle db. Has anyone
tried using GeoServer to display weather data? I'm thinking there might be
a way to get weather data from weather.gov and either store it in a db or
have GeoServer access the data directly. I'm curious if someone has done
this and the best approach to take.

thanks
Dan

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Dan,

I used a tutorial from Geoserver itself that talked about Hurricane tracks. The idea was to convert hurricane best track data from shape files (.shp) to Postgis. I think it was the best tutorial I have seen. Note, though, weather data is no different than any other data. The one thing that is perhaps unique in weather data is the use of wind barbs (and stream lines).

Wind barbs are directional (opposite direction of a vector) and contain speed information using "wind barbs". Would be interesting if anyone has used this symbol in GIS.

http://geoserver.org/display/GEOSDOC/Tropical+Storm+Tracking+with+PostGIS-GeoServer-GoogleEarth

aloha
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I should have added, I'm thinking mainly about radar data, i.e. storms,
hurricanes.

Dan MacLeod wrote:

I'm using GeoServer to display features stored in my Oracle db. Has anyone
tried using GeoServer to display weather data? I'm thinking there might be
a way to get weather data from weather.gov and either store it in a db or
have GeoServer access the data directly. I'm curious if someone has done
this and the best approach to take.

thanks
Dan

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On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Dan MacLeod <dan.macleod@anonymised.com> wrote:

I should have added, I'm thinking mainly about radar data, i.e. storms,
hurricanes.

Have you seen http://www.nws.noaa.gov/gis/otherpage.htm ?

One of my students used the following OpenLayers code to add active
Hurricane tracks to her map
(http://webmapping.mgis.psu.edu/geoserver/www/lovely/Nlovely.html)

var trop= new OpenLayers.Layer.WMS(
                "Tropical Cyclone Track Forecast",
"http://nowcoast.noaa.gov/wms/com.esri.wms.Esrimap/wwa?&quot;,
                {
                    layers:
'NHC_TRACK_WWLIN,NHC_TRACK_LIN,NHC_TRACK_POLY,NHC_TRACK_PT,NHC_TRACK_PT_120DATE,NHC_TRACK_PT_72DATE,NHC_TRACK_PT_0NAMEDATE,NHC_TRACK_PT_120WLBL,NHC_TRACK_PT_72WLBL,NHC_TRACK_PT_MSLPLABELS',
                    styles: '',
                    height: '330',
                    width: '800',
                    srs: 'EPSG:4326',
           transparent: true,
                    format: 'image/png'
                },
                {isBaselayer: false, singleTile: true, ratio: 1}
            );

Ian

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