Is there any free API's with a weather radar animation based on longitude and latitude.
I have been looking at https://openweathermap.org as an alternative to absolute free but would like to get som advise and understand which API is the best from a price/performance point of view to create this.
If you can are willing to google translate a Dutch page and wants to create something for the Benelux region you might be interested in buienradar
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I'm building a React app and I would like to use Maps. Google Maps and other Maps APIs have a charge and this project will be free for the community (just like an NGO) so no budget at all.
In this app there is a page to create an Event, so you can type many things and where the Event will happen, and that is where I would like to use Maps, to search and show the location.
I thought that if is there any possibility to use a search box connected to an API just to get the Longitude and Latitude based on the search would be great, but I have no idea how to make it and I was expecting that you could help me find a way. (the thing is: get the information for free)
Just as I create this event, I would like to show this information on the Event page, so where the event will happen. And that would be the second part that I would like to use Maps. Do you know if I just show the location in Maps if I would be charged? If so, then I can use redirection to Google Maps using the Latitude and Longitude that I got from the event creation.
Thanks in advance!
See https://www.google.com/nonprofits/offerings/google-earth-and-maps/ for non-profit organizations.
I use a react-google-maps and I want to dynamically highlight a country or a subntaional when user click on the map anywhere in the whole world, so I need to get coordinates to draw a polygon, but can't find any service with api for it. What the best way to achieve this?
I was also searching for this solution. you can use google charts api for above problem.
NWS has depricated their old (pre 2020) weather radar site here.
I am trying to find their new API endpoint for pulling the live weather radar image for a lat/long point. All I've been able to find about it is just JSON feeds for forecast.
There is no way (that I know of) to do this anymore. If there is, it is well hidden. The best I can do is use their endpoint with lat/lon and it will show the closest weather forecast office - which will get you close... but not the actual radar needed.
For my answer I would suggest using MRMS or a national level-2 mosaic. I am not sure how your maps are setup so this may not be ideal. However, you can find them here :
Level-2 Mosaic Files :
https://mrms.ncep.noaa.gov/data/RIDGEII/L2/CONUS/
MRMS (Multi-Radar-Multi-Sensor) :
https://mrms.ncep.noaa.gov/data/2D/
The docs are not clear on this as they mention fov and viewport suggesting a portion of the entire spherical image.
Does the Google Street View API support retrieving the entire 360 degree equi-rectangular (lat/lon) image?
No, but you could download separate panorama tiles and pack them together of use a third party tool (ex: https://istreetview.com/) and get the entire 360 degree image.
Another option would be to code the above functionality by yourself by using Google StreetView Image API (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/streetview/intro). To be honest, I did not try this myself, but through the API you should be able to retrieve all parts of the image and then stitch it back into equirectangular panorama.
This might give you more info:
How to get the original panorama image by panoid in google street view?
EDIT: While searching a way to overcome the fact that Google StreetView app doesn;t work as marketed, I found another third party service able to retrieve photos https://gothru.co/
It is possible by making use of the FOV and heading options within the API.
Take particular note of the heading param.
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?size=640x640&location=51.52551,-0.08853&fov=120&heading=0&key=YOUR_KEY
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?size=640x640&location=51.52551,-0.08853&fov=120&heading=120&source=outdoor&key=YOUR_KEY
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?size=640x640&location=51.52551,-0.08853&fov=120&heading=240&key=YOUR_KEY
By making these three separate API calls you will receive the 360 image sliced into three parts.
You can then use something like node blend to combine them and voila you have a 360 panoramic image!
on this application, you type in your home address, and the map changes to a view with outlines for each house? Do any of you know how they did this? Or what route they took? Any helpful information related to this, or interactive maps would be very appreciated.
You can view the picture right here:
Thanks
The URL you reference gives an image, not a map, so it might just be a mockup of something they would like to do.
It is also possible that this app is for a limited geographical region and they figured out the parcel information by hand (or got it from their city).
It's hard to tell with just an image.