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Rocky Mountain Region Weather Trending Website

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Re: Rocky Mountain Region Weather Trending Website

motosix wrote: Also, when you first go to the site it centers on Denver, not Oregon. Maybe down the road I will have to add in the ability to localize it to your specific location...

for location how about using a search bar for a airport or zip code?
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ExperimentalAviator wrote:I see you got the cloud ceiling on there =D>


Yup - That was a good idea and it went in last night!
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motosix wrote: Also, when you first go to the site it centers on Denver, not Oregon. Maybe down the road I will have to add in the ability to localize it to your specific location...

for location how about using a search bar for a airport or zip code?


I like it and I think the airport code would work great. I'll try and shoehorn that somewhere on the dropdown panel sometime next week!
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motosix wrote: Also, when you first go to the site it centers on Denver, not Oregon. Maybe down the road I will have to add in the ability to localize it to your specific location...

for location how about using a search bar for a airport or zip code?


I like it and I think the airport code would work great. I'll try and shoehorn that somewhere on the dropdown panel sometime next week!

i'm glad to help
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mountainmatt wrote:Great info! Any chance we could link this on FlyColorado.org?

Thanks, Matt


Feel free. In fact, if you want to embed an IFRAME right in the site in a smaller window, go right ahead.

Or you have a techie on your side, I wrote a quick public API to allow me to access the data from the backend that collects it every hour. You could use it to put a ticker/graph/whatever for specific passes with trending weather without being forced to display the Google Maps interface. I am just brainstorming; I am happy to help you guys out however you like.

(Patrick R knows about this and has been wicked helpful btw)


Sweet, we'll get that added here in the next few weeks. This is very helpful.

Hope to see you around soon!
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Re: Rocky Mountain Region Weather Trending Website

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motosix wrote: Also, when you first go to the site it centers on Denver, not Oregon. Maybe down the road I will have to add in the ability to localize it to your specific location...

for location how about using a search bar for a airport or zip code?


I like it and I think the airport code would work great. I'll try and shoehorn that somewhere on the dropdown panel sometime next week!


Search-by-airport feature went in today. Check out the bottom left...
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Re: Rocky Mountain Region Weather Trending Website

i don't see it
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ExperimentalAviator wrote:i don't see it


Bottom left hand corner of the entire map window is a small input box with a "find" button.

You may need to refresh your web browser if you are on a computer; that should make it pick up the new code. I am not sure how to force a page reload on a tablet but, once you do that, it should display the new stuff...
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Re: Rocky Mountain Region Weather Trending Website

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ExperimentalAviator wrote:i don't see it


Bottom left hand corner of the entire map window is a small input box with a "find" button.

You may need to refresh your web browser if you are on a computer; that should make it pick up the new code. I am not sure how to force a page reload on a tablet but, once you do that, it should display the new stuff...
thank's, got it (hit refresh)
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i like that time line drop down.
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ExperimentalAviator wrote:i like that time line drop down.


Excellent! Some of the graphs were getting too busy so I am playing with ways to limit the timeline a bit...

I added a bunch of airports around the Portland area today as well.
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HOLY S****!, now that going big moto. wow :shock: :shock:
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ExperimentalAviator wrote:HOLY S****!, now that going big moto. wow :shock: :shock:


Yeah, I know... :shock:

I stumbled across a database of airport codes and their coordinates for all 50 states (AK and HI included) and wrote some code to automatically add the ones that have a reporting AWOS station. So now I'll just throw storage at the thing and let it grow and grow... :)

I guess I should change the domain name to something more descriptive now since it isn't just Colorado anymore.
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Re: Rocky Mountain Region Weather Trending Website

Colorado pilots, http://www.COwx.net is all ours now (now even displaying the Density Altitude as it trends every hour. ~12.8K at Leadville today! :shock: )

For anyone outside Colorado, http://www.AWOSlog.com has just about every reporting AWOS station I could find for lower 48, Hawaii, and Alaska.

Both sites share the same data; the CO one just zooms in to Colorado by default so we can embed it on other Colorado specific backcountry websites.

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