Hi,

I really miss the old version of the website “weatherspark” It had an absolutely fantastic weather dashboard.

It was a old google-finance-like graph that you could scroll, to zoom in and out to increase the timescale, or left to right to shift the date at the center of the graph.

The lines on the graph shows, current temperature, historical temperature and prediction temperature.

There were bands around the temperature that would indicate temperature averages and records for the date period on screen.

If there were precipitations, it would show as another line the amounts.

In that simple graph you could get the sense of the local weather, what it’s been and what it will be, this week, this month or 25 years ago with just your mouse.

With all the weather data being collected by government and available on public APIs, is there any open source self-hosted software that has an effective interactive data visualization user interface as weather spark of old ?

Here is what it looked like, all in a single graph with NO pageloads !

  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    This looks good, although I’m not a fan that it says “non-commercial use” To me that means, we reserve the right to alter the deal. Also it seems to get it’s data from a private company, rather than my local government weather office and their public API, whatever it might be ?

    Also, this says it is an API. So would I need to code up an entire web front end to display the data like I would like … ?

    I presume, there is some application which can display data of this API ? Are any, like the style I am after ?

    I see that it has the historical data so that’s great, maybe I could have the min/maximum recorded temperatures as part of my single temperature view thing, at least, it could do it !

    I see there is a 10000 API request limit, so I don’t know if that’s going to work at all. If I just scroll back in time, I imagine it would bust this 10000 request cap very quickly ?

    But that does sound like the most promising meteo self-hosted option.

    It’s kind of weird we’ve got maps, mail, notes but not weather ?

    There are so many people making their own weather stations but it seems here there has not really been someone self-hosting their own weather dashboard !

    Maybe it’s a new frontier of selfhosting !