Love Windy? Hack Windy. Contributors Wanted

donfanning

The FAA has all their printed aeronautical maps online at: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/aeronav/Digital_Products/

Doing a quick perusal of the offerings, it seemingly can be done but would require a WMS server to store the data. That said, as an example, I found http://wms.chartbundle.com/charts/tms.html does have a WMS online and seemingly could be introduced as another overlay.

And NOAA has Maritime maps online at their WMS: http://tileservice.charts.noaa.gov/tileset.html#50000_1-locator
https://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/charts/noaa-enc.html is another offering.

I think the biggest problem - especially globally is actually to hunt/find and either host or reference a related GIS server for those countries/governmental authorities. Not impossible, however. A community cache of these GIS servers would also be beneficial when the GIS servers are down for maintenance or just simply decommissioned without notice or arrangement.

earthzen

Regarding free world maps try here:
map.openseamap.org
www.openstreetmap.org

The problem with depths (seems that openseamap organization has having the same problem) is that they aren't public. Openseamap had a project going where they would ask sailors to have depth sounders with GPS on board yachts to collect data.

earthzen

Since I'm a sailor (and an embedded systems programmer) I have been using windy for several years now.
I also use passageweather.
Passageweather has a great feature that allows to download weather charts (wind, waves, etc) to the laptop in zip format.
This allows while sailing away fro the internet to consult the weather forecast obtained on shore.
Is this feature available on windy? Will it ever be? thanks

Oscar

Hi, I'm a Developer and i like Windy, I want to help you, how can I contact you for understanding the particular topic?can you contact me on my email?
Thanks a lot.

vaseker

@ivo did you see https://github.com/floatdrop/node-cctz? It can be nice replacement for tzwhere.

ankitsxn

Hi,

regarding the timezone, you may roughly calculate it using coordinates longitude
offset = direction * longitude * 24 / 360

where the direction is 1 in case of E and -1 in case of W.

Trust I understand the question.

caub

I didn't know https://github.com/floatdrop/node-cctz, looks good, I used https://github.com/darkskyapp/tz-lookup for one of my small project https://gitlab.com/caub/tzmap

jaffadog

Hi @ivo, regarding donations, I would recommend leveraging existing facilities and frameworks such as:

https://www.patreon.com
https://www.paypal.com
https://stripe.com

Players such as these already handle all of the security and compliance aspects of handling credit/payment cards. I think all of them handle a wide collection of countries and languages.

I think the implementation with windy.com would be windy-specific rather than some new open source project. But perhaps I'm not looking at it the same way you are.

I'm willing to help any way I can. I've used stripe in my own project - so I have some first-hand knowledge there; and have some prior experience with paypal and patreon - although as as standalone services.

Cheers,
Jeremy

ivo

@jaffadog Except for Paypal we can not use them. Stipe is not supported in 3/4 in the world and patreon requires strict registration on their website. But thx anyway

ivo

@jaffadog Basically what we need is use our Windy registered user and ask either for one time, or monthly donation.

MtoPara

hi Ivo

I am founder of a niche-market weather website that I guess you already know. There is some competitive overlaps on our respective "weather" activity.
But we share the vision of open-source and better information for every pilots and sport enthusiasts. I think that having a good sports database for everyone is more important that competition between two companies.

We were already working with ParaglidingEarth founder to refactor the paragliding spots database.
We will use OpenStreetMap as the database backend (because why do we need another new database ?)
So all paragliding spots will be imported into OSM and ParaglidingEarth will serve as a simplified OSM editor and it will also store some metadata such as spots pictures.

I think we have here a very good opportunity to initiate a "spots" movement into OSM. If we merge ParaglidingEarth and your kite spots into OSM, that will encourage people add more spots and more activities - not only PG and Kite.

And, is there any database more legit that OSM for storing geographical POI ? ;)

Want to join us in that project?

(This is a real collaboration proposition. We are not seeking to profit from Windy's visibility)

n_k_samal

@ivo I have some experience in C++, PHP, HTML5 and SQL. Just wanted to know how can I contribute.

ivo

@mtopara Hi. Send me email via PM I will send you kitespots database. Would be nice If you could make also kitespots database editor. The guy behind former SPLOC database did not want to share so there is really need to have Open Source kiting spots database.

Which website do you work on?

julienrf1023

@ivo What does “strict registration” mean?

julienrf1023

@ivo Also, would https://liberapay.com/ work for you?

MtoPara

@ivo i sent you a chat message

jaffadog

Hi @ivo - Stripe will accept payments from users anywhere - but they have a limited number of countries that you can register your business from, and the Czech Republic is not among them yet.
https://stripe.com/global

It's the death and taxes conundrum. Maybe you need to do a road trip to Luxembourg ;)

t.a.grandits

Hi everyone,
just wanted to drop by to tell you how much I appreciate the effort you put into Windy! Amazing site!
I am a professional developer, but I'm currently not working in web development. If anyone opens a github project (or sth similar) about one of the topics, I'd be happy to try to contribute.

szaver

Are you still looking for a tzwhere replacement? I would like to build one in Rust binding to node using neon for maximum performance.

I can use data from node-geo-tz as it seems to be regularly updated.