I am trying to add a weather overlay to my maps , the tile images on Noaa.gov are what i want but i couldn't find any documentation on how to construct url to consume & arrange tiles of overlays for a given lon/lat. below is the a sample url that returns a single tile.
http://radarcache.srh.noaa.gov/tc/tc.py/1.0.0/ridge::NAT-N0Q-201211191510/8/62/97.png
update:
The web service i am working on generates a sectional aviation chart/map for a given lon/lat dimension and zoom level . one of the overlays i am rendering on top of the generated base map is weather(radar reflective ..)
based on the information i have (lon/lat, dimension and zoom level) i want to render weather overlay on top of my base map.
the challenge i am facing is how do i get weather overlay using lon/lat ?
After researching a lot i found out that NOAA Tile System uses this Tile arrangement, based on that i was able to get PNG images overlay for a given (lon/lat/zoom) as follows
http://ridgewms.srh.noaa.gov/tc/tc.py/1.0.0/ridge::NAT-N0Q-{0:yyyyMMddHHmm}/{1}/{2}/{3}.png
Where
{0:yyyyMMddHHmm} = date time in 5 minute increments
{1} ZoomLevel
{2} X or tile column
{3} Y or Tile Row
Without more information about what you are trying to integrate into, here is what I know. If you want to create a custom KML file, there is this page that will do that for you. For more info about other layers, check out this page as well.
If you provide more info about your environment, we might be able to help with more specifics.
EDIT:
For just the transparent gifs, see this page here http://forecast.weather.gov/jetstream/doppler/ridge_download.htm
There is quite a bit of information for downloading actual data here http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/radar/radardata.html
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I have a WPF project that shows all of buses route over the city and the current position of every bus. I can Show all positions using markers and also all of routes but the routes are shown by drawing a line inside the streets.
It is going to be more efficient if I can change the color of whole street's width instead of usual way(drawing line).
Is it possible? If yes How?
If you're using GMap.Net, the best would be to update to the latest version and go through the maps until you find a map with a colour scheme that works for you. The demo winforms project in the repo: https://github.com/radioman/greatmaps allows for easy switching between maps to find the map you like.
I'm using the wpf map control of DevExpress 15.1.5 and I'm trying to load a map from a local source.
DevExpress's help allows me to download a .osm file of a selected map area by me, but I can not load a .osm with this control; it only supports .kml and .shp.
What can I do?
You need to download map data in a different format, see. :
OpenStreetMap data
I recommend the first download a small country and try it if that's what you need.
Map consists of multiple layers, which together form "what you see". Layers are buildings, roads, places, waterways,landuse ... and are formed by shapes *.shp file (eg. Building plan, the route of the road ...)
You can view video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vlEzX9Q15Y&t=6s
also the source code is available in github.
the Control works on local OSM tiles
it is written in C#
I created OSM MAP Control which have the following functionalities:
1. Accurate Zoom with the mouse wheel.
2. Move left , up ,bottom and right
3.if tiles are missing , it ask to start download those missing tiles.
4. Create line on the map
5.save history by friendly name
6. you can download area of tiles - with zoom.
I have custom map image with specific height and width.
i need to map x-y coordinates of image to latitude longitude from four corner latitude longitude available.
this requirement is for fulfill current location of user into custom image map.
more on this on image i have specific few points on image, based on current position of user, i need to find near by point on image in Windows Phone Application.
Thanks in advance.
If you are using the Bing Maps Silverlight Control for WP7, there are APIs for want you want to achieve.
The Map class for example provides methods LocationToViewportPoint and ViewportPointToLocation for converting coordinates.
There is also the class MercatorUtility which provides helpful methods like LocationToLogicalPoint and LogicalPointToLocation.
However, depending on what you mean with custom map image, nobody except you would possibly know how it maps to view coordinates.
I want to draw a map in WPF without using any third party controls.
I need each and every state of all the countries, and based on certain conditions I want to color them.
How can I get the polygon shapes of each state of all the countries?
Here is an SVG file with all the states as separate polygons (look at the source!)
You can convert it to xaml if you want and fill the state differently.
EDIT
Just google for svg world map. One of the first hits seems to be a nice resource.
I'm looking for a way to store a very large image (e.g. 100.000x100.000 pixels) on a webserver. I must be able to retrieve parts of that image and write parts into it. The cherry on top would be a way to get parts of that image, resized to a specific resolution (for example, i want alle pixels from 0,0 to 10.000,10.000 resized to 1000x1000 pixels).
Anybody know a kind of DB, or a data-structure or any other way or service or programm that can handle something like that?
thx, tux
How about Tiles?
Just like what popular mapping application (Google Maps / Bing Maps ) does. Divide and pre-process your image in to tiles for various sizes (zoom levels). Display them on a webpage with zero margin, zero border.
While retrieving, calculate positioning of tiles (which tiles should be retrieved as whole and which ones as partial) and then return as single image.
http://143.117.54.5/idl/images/img_pyrm.gif
(image ack: http://143.117.54.5/idl/Image_Tiling.html)
Search for "map servers": there are a bunch of them already available. I'm sure they at least contain components that might be of interest for you.