One of the most requested feature is finally here! Now you can plan your trip or flight with our route planner.

How does it work?

Just use Distance & planning, which is a feature you might already be familiar with, and select the forecast type you need.

For example VFR:

Several points for discussion:

• All winds are relative to the direction of movement by default, i.e. the green arrow pointing to the right is a tailwind, the red arrow pointing to the left is a headwind. You can change direction of movement (form bottom to top, from left to right) or set absolute directions (north up).
• Do you think any particular forecast type or values are lacking?

@stitch Do not be sad, cross section will be soon (it is almost finished, just some UI glitches are missing), but this is even bigger thing with higher priority :-) You will love it!

And here we are, it is alive!

Do you like Windy and happen to enjoy programming as well? Join us! We are looking for a javascript developer, ideally with sense for UI/UX, but a full stack developer will find their place here too!

We are a small startup with a global outreach and exponential growth. Our service is used by millions of people around the globe, and yet there is just a handful of us. That is why we need help!

We offer extensive workload, freedom and unlimited space for a self-realization.
In return, we expect responsibility, technical (self) education, enthusiasm and interest in Windy. We are looking for someone who is not afraid of hard work and is ready to move forward.

We do not waste our time on endless meetings nor make up a meaningless tasks. We are going after our goal and look for a partner - you.

(Prague internship or remote if based outside of Prague)

You can reach us at (czech website):
https://www.startupjobs.cz/nabidka/16365/javascript-developer

Or send your CV/portfolio to:
hiring@windy.com

As this is one of the most desirable features, it has reached the top of our todo list. We cannot promise any exact date, but we are working on it :-)

🎉 Update released! 🎉

It took us a while until we returned back to the route planner. Thank you for your patience. What is new:

• add speed option (the most wanted feature here in this thread)
• add 250hPa flight level for IFR view

Thank you all for your feedback, it helps us a lot :-)

Hey guys, we just published a new version of our route planner. Just some small improvements.

Changelog:

• added switch to change direction of movement (relative/absolute wind and wave directions)
• added "reverse route" button
• route detail remains open when waypoints are changed or any changes are happening
• uncountable ammount of minor fixes

Thanks for your feedback, we have been working on another version :-)

Práce i nápadů máme tolik, že to už nestíháme. Potřebujeme pomoc!

Hledáme javascript developera, který se nebojí zodpovědnosti. Je jedno, zda jsi junior, nebo senior. Nejsme korporace, jsme malý tým 5 nadšených programátorů, kteří si navzájem pomáhají a radí. Díky tomu každý z nás roste, jak jen nejrychleji může, protože jenom tak může být pro firmu přínosem. Zapomeň na škatulkování pozic, jsme jeden tým. Neřešíme blbosti, máme jasnou vizi, jasný cíl, a za tím jdeme. Pokud se chceš k nám přidat, něco se od nás přiučit a také sám něco naučit nás, ozvi se. Těšíme se na spolupráci. :-)

Ozvat se můžeš na mail nebo startupjobs:
hiring@windy.com
https://www.startupjobs.cz/admin/windyty-s-e/nabidka/16365/javascript-developer

Očekáváme:

• Inteligenci
• Zkušenost s vývojem software
• Znalost jazyka Javascript (frontend nebo backend)

Výhodou:

• Znalost některé z následujících technologií: HTML, CSS, Node.js, Docker, C++, Python
• Analytické myšlení, znalost matematiky

Nabízíme:

• Možnost psát kód pro miliony uživatelů denně
• Práci v nádherné kanceláři na břehu Vltavy s výhledem na Vyšehrad a Pražský hrad
• Startupového ducha, soustředění na vývoj, žádné dlouhé porady, no corporate bullshit! :-)

@stitch Well, @ivo drop the whip down please, I swear I will work 8 days a week. We have finished cross section for land and water related things. Now we are working on "air related cross sections". Thanks to beating me with the whip, it seems it will be finished during this month. Stay tuned!

Not yet, but we are considering some changes with an increasing number of plugins. For example:

• direct support for plugins on mobile devices
• auto-loading selected plugins
• user voting

Hi @mhaberler. I do not think this will be part of our API soon, if ever. You can check our Point Forecast API if it fits your needs. Feel free to suggest us which parameter of any forecast model you are interested in. Maybe we already have it and use it, but it is only not available for our API (then it would be easy to add this). Otherwise I am affraid we would not support this at this moment.

Windy is mainly a desktop/tablet/phone application and we strongly believe that it will remain so.

Anything is possible in the world of programming, but only a handful of things are worth implementing :-) I added this request to our "possible improvements" list to know if more users will find it useful.

I am affraid we are not able to fix the issue without any other complications. This limitation comes from leaflet.js we use. Leaflet offers an option how it should behave around antimeridian (loop map or "extend" coordinates from -Infinity to +Infinity - see worldCopyJump for more info). We use "infinity" logic and change this would impact houndreds of another dependencies we are affraid of.

@lefunkyfancy I removed your last post, but you found the problem. We have never received payment for your API key. Please contact @Korina or @petra-pik and send them your payment invoice to fix the issue.

@lefunkyfancy We cannot help you then :-( I just checked some other professional API implementations and everything works like a charm. It is probably some specific issue for your implementation, so we need to have an access to help you.

@cwpenergy Yes, it will be in m since now. We have no past data, we have only current forecast. But if you store past data, just consider them in meters, nothing more. Values remain unchanged, only unit was wrong. As I can see you are an API user since 07/2020, so all the data you collected should be in meters. Sorry again, obviously precip in point forecast is not so imported for API users, otherwise it would be reported more often. We are so sorry for the inconvenience.

@cwpenergy Hi, sorry for all problems you have. Unit was changed because it was wrong. The number value is still same without any change, just unit was changed. We will not change it again, it will preserve in current state. We try to do our best to not make breaking changes, but this was bug fix. Sorry again and thank you for your understanding.

@vicb Thanks to @rittels there will be support in a next windy version for specific loading as you discribed in your last post. Just for to be sure I copy-paste the logic of finding the version:

let path = '';
if (json && json.main_updates) {
    const mainUpdates = json.main_updates;
    const windyVersion = ver2num(rs.version);
    let min = Infinity;
    for (const version in mainUpdates) {
        const diff = windyVersion - ver2num(version);
        if (diff >= 0 && diff < min) {
            min = diff;
            path = '/' + mainUpdates[version];
        }
    }
}
// ...
// load `${pluginRootUrl}${path}`

Feel free to suggest anything you need for surviving this crazy period of windy refactoring :-) It is easy to change the logic while it is in a dev branch.

@yzoh26dett There is no reason to be rough. I understand the problem finally and found the problem. Units were incorrect. It should be fixed now. Thanks for pointing out the problem.

@idefix37 @dr-mdgrant-windy @rittels It was quite tricky bug, but it should be fixed now. Thanks for your help!