<![CDATA[Weather radar data of Taiwan]]>Hello Windy Group,

The Central Weather Bureau of Taiwan released the radar reflectivity data in XML format. It can download at http://opendata.cwb.gov.tw (register for free, in Chinese), data ID is A0059-001. It will be useful for Windy Map.

Tytony Cheng

]]>https://community.windy.com/topic/5477/weather-radar-data-of-taiwanRSS for NodeWed, 15 Apr 2026 10:44:21 GMTFri, 23 Feb 2018 09:12:33 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Weather radar data of Taiwan on Fri, 13 Apr 2018 12:44:04 GMT]]>@tytony Is this what you expect?
0_1523623406650_taiwanRadar.png

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/11764https://community.windy.com/post/11764Fri, 13 Apr 2018 12:44:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Weather radar data of Taiwan on Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:53:44 GMT]]>@TZ I was in a Taiwan's weather company before, but now just an open data user.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/10591https://community.windy.com/post/10591Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:53:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Weather radar data of Taiwan on Sat, 24 Feb 2018 18:53:53 GMT]]>@tytony Ok, thank you very much for the information! So we will be regularly downloading the latest file. I have one more question: Are you “insider”? I mean are you from Taiwan meteo service or are you also using its open data?

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/10565https://community.windy.com/post/10565Sat, 24 Feb 2018 18:53:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Weather radar data of Taiwan on Sat, 24 Feb 2018 13:28:23 GMT]]>@TZ CWB only offers the latest data, it updates every 10 minutes. (All of the CWB open data are the same...)

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/10557https://community.windy.com/post/10557Sat, 24 Feb 2018 13:28:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Weather radar data of Taiwan on Sat, 24 Feb 2018 06:58:02 GMT]]>@tytony thank you very much!!! I know about this, but I wondered if there is some documentation regarding URL parameters. E.g. if it is possible to get listing of available files or specify image time to download. Up to now it seems to me that only latest image is available. It would be great to have at least some metadata, so I can check whether image was updated. Otherwise I must periodically download the whole file and parse it.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/10544https://community.windy.com/post/10544Sat, 24 Feb 2018 06:58:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Weather radar data of Taiwan on Sat, 24 Feb 2018 03:13:05 GMT]]>@TZ You can get the XML file at http://opendata.cwb.gov.tw/opendataapi?dataid=O-A0059-001&authorizationkey=YOUR_APIKEY
The data description is in the XML file, I translate it in below image :-)
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]]>https://community.windy.com/post/10540https://community.windy.com/post/10540Sat, 24 Feb 2018 03:13:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Weather radar data of Taiwan on Fri, 23 Feb 2018 15:55:08 GMT]]>@tytony Do you have more information about the taiwan radar API? I am investigating it, but it is not so easy for me, since it is Chinese and I must use translators. I managed to create an account and get an API id (everything in chinese, but I made it finally :-) Now I am confused, because it seems that radar is quite a new product in Taiwan Open Data and is not well documented. I guess whether it is already fully operational...

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/10521https://community.windy.com/post/10521Fri, 23 Feb 2018 15:55:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Weather radar data of Taiwan on Fri, 23 Feb 2018 09:21:22 GMT]]>@tytony Great! Thank you for your post. If it is true, we will add Taiwan radar to Windy soon. But it is hard to believe that radar data is in XML format. I will check it out. Thank you again!

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/10513https://community.windy.com/post/10513Fri, 23 Feb 2018 09:21:22 GMT