Hi Windy fans and Aviators

I have been (very slowly) working on this for a while. It might be somewhat superfluous, since @marekd is creating something similar.

There are still kinks to be ironed out, but usable:

• Go to windy.com/plugins and enter windy-plugin-fp. Once loaded, right click/long press on the map for context menu. Then click Flight planner.
• The plugin is meant for recreational VFR flight planning.
• Use the weather picker to plot a route.
• You can also upload a route. (Upload formats: .gpx, .ep1, .efp. Download: .gpx.)
• Airports (found in the Windy Airports layer) can be used to add a waypoint.
• Sliding the aircraft icon along the route will set the Windy map to the appropriate time and altitude.
• Altitude, speed, time and date can be set for selected legs.
• Long press on a row in the flight plan to select single leg.
• Click the "Read Wx" button to fly along the flight plan and read the weather data. Do not move the map during this period, may take a minute or more.
• Ground speed and corrected ETE are then calculated.
• "Allow Drag" button allows dragging the waypoints. "Lock Drag" again to prevent dragging accidentally.
• In the Settings menu: Alert values for different overlays can be set. The alert sections will then be marked with red along the route after "Read Wx" has run.
• Airspace data from openAIP.net has been translated to geojson and can be loaded in the Airspace menu. Do not load too many countries.

hope it is of value....

Latest version: windy-plugin-fp@0.1.8 : Added @marekd 's route planner .

windy-plugin-cov

Still requires some work, but usable.

Hi

This plugin reads the warnings geojson data from http://www.weathersa.co.za/warnings and displays it on Windy.

Hope the SA weather services don't have objections.

For those not familiar with plugins:

• URL: www.windy.com/plugins.
• Type in: windy-plugin-saws-warnings and click Load plugin.
• Hopefully Borat will appear.
• Close plugin pane and right click on screen for context menu. Then click SAWS warnings.
• Load may take several seconds.
• Use the weather picker to view different regions and warnings.
• So far only today shown, not tomorrow and D3-5.

Probably still buggy.
enjoy

@ivo and team

Thanks for negotiating with ECMWF!

It is an honour to be a core windy contributor.

@pedrambay

Plugin: windy-plugin-cov

displays the Johns Hopkins data.

windy-plugin-da

Fun with data loader!!!

windy-plugin-timezones

• Plugin displays the different timezones.
• Regions, offsets and DST rules are obtained from the timezone database: www.iana.org/time-zones. This database is maintained by Paul Eggert.
• Only the current DST rules are included in the plugin.
• The shapefiles were created by Evan Siroky: github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder/releases.
• I have simplified the polygons considerably with Agafonkin's simplify program, ported to python (https://github.com/omarestrella/simplify.py). It is loaded into windy as a binary file, of approximately 1MB.

Hi @ivo and @marekd. Can you add this plugin to the plugin gallery? if it qualifies. Admittedly, it has little to do with the weather, but I think it is very relevant.

Description:

• This Covid-19 plugin displays the dramatic unfolding of the Coronavirus pandemic.
• The historical data come from Johns Hopkins CSSE's repo on github: https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19.
• The Johns Hopkins github data lag their dashboard by a few hours.
• The most recent data come from Worldometer: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries.
• I obtained the geojson files for the region boundaries from various sources, predominantly from here: https://geojson-maps.ash.ms.
• The population data also come mostly from https://geojson-maps.ash.ms, and Wikipedia.
• The data are displayed as an interactive chloropleth map, the color shading is logarithmic by default.
• You can select absolute cases or cases per population, and all cases or new cases over a selected number of days (1-7).
• Moving the time slider at the bottom, updates the map.
• The left pane shows the graphs of the country selected with the Picker. If the Picker is closed, the world is shown.

Latest changes: Added the most recent data from Worldometer and added a slider to select the number of days (1-7) for new cases. To-do the population data seem outdated.

James is nearly home. Go James!!
http://jamesketchell.net
Also thx to Windy.

@CraigM-0

Hi. You can do that with my plugin. windy.com/plugins -> select flightplanner

@Okocedion @LaurentDI

There is a fetch error:

The 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header contains multiple values '*, *', but only one is allowed. Have the server send the header with a valid value, or, if an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.

Maybe remove

Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"

from .htaccess

@johnckealy Hi John

https://iweathar.co.za/products

This is installed at our local airfield.

I wrote a plugin: windy-plugin-iw.

I see they have a few stations in France now. Powered by solar panels.

Cost appears to be just over 400 Euro. (R7800) Perhaps more now.

@Kris-22

Hopefully, the plugins can be reached via the app in the future.

@Korina @lweinlan

Fixed the bug, however temp still differs with up to 1 degree from picker value. The DA plugin uses forecast data of dataLoader, while I think the picker displays airdata, surface level. Also the picker shows interpolated value, where dataLoader shows nearest point, 10-11km resolution on ECMWF.

@Korina @lweinlan

There is indeed a bug. The Data comes from dataLoader function, which is throttled to 3 calls/sec when dragging. Unfortunately it does not update correctly on dragend. Will report when fixed. Thanks for letting me know.

However, the baseLayer tiles do not load if minZoom is less than 3, overlay layer works though.

(cannot seem to edit my posts, not enough privileges).

@visualanimal

const { map } = windyAPI;
map.options.minZoom = 1;    

However, the basemapLayer tiles do not load if minZoom

Now working in the app. Thanks!

Hi @marekd and @Korina

I would like to send the plugin link to people with whatsapp or email: thus www.windy.com/plugins.

If the app is already installed, it opens the Plugins pane, but not the plugin list. (At least on Android). If you then load it directly from npm, it works fine.

If you click uninstall all plugins it reloads the Plugins pane in fullscreen browser, which then displays the list, and works fine.

Thx

@marekd thanks!