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How to get weather data from OpenWeatherMap API in a popup by clicking any location on the map?
i am still new at calling APIs in my map, API return JSON files but i don't know how to call the API in my map and how to bind JSON file in an HTML element.
This is the API which uses coordinates to return weather data in a JSON file: api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=35&lon=139
but i need to replace these lat and lng parameters by clicking any location on the map.
You should be able to do something like this
var mymap = L.map('maptest').setView([51.505, -0.09], 13);
L.tileLayer('http://{s}.tile.osm.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png', {
attribution: '© OSM contributors'
}).addTo(mymap)
var popup = L.popup()
function onMapClick(e) {
popup
.setLatLng(e.latlng)
.setContent("Fetching weather info")
.openOn(mymap);
fetch('https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=' + e.latlng.lat + '&lon=' + e.latlng.lng + '&appid=' + yourApiKey)
.then(r => r.json())
.then(data => {
// Change this line to show exactly the info you need
popup.setContent(data.weather.map(w => w.description).join(", "))
})
}
mymap.on('click', onMapClick)
The example is using the fetch api to call the openweathermap api and fetch is only supported in modern browsers. If you need to support older browsers you need to use a polyfill (https://github.com/github/fetch)
Edit: As mentioned by @Spacedman in the comments, the above solution should only be used on private networks. If you use the above code on public available networks, you expose your apikey for openweathermap so that anyone can use it to request the service.
data that is defined in the function that set the content of the popup
– Dataform
Feb 25 at 11:56
To achieve something like this:
you can use the following code. Just copy paste and save it as .html file. The comments in the script should explain whats going on. If not, let me know. It is a modified and simplified map of mine I made some time ago, so I might have missed something to remove or adjust which may cause confusion. Dont forget to insert your personal API key.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Openweathermap</title>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/leaflet/1.4.0/leaflet.css" />
<style>
#headline
{
font-family: Calibri;
font-size: 30px;
text-align: center;
padding-right: 2px;
z-index: 1;
}
#map
{
position: absolute;
height: 90vh;
min-height: 200px;
width: 99.5vw;
min-width: 200px;
left: 2px;
border: 3px solid;
border-color: grey;
margin-bottom: 0;
z-index: -2;
}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/leaflet/1.4.0/leaflet.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<p id='headline'><b>Openweathermap</b></p>
<!-- mapbox -->
<div id="map" class="map"></div>
<!-- routing -->
<br>
<!-- links !-->
<!-- custom script!-->
<script>
//MAP
var mymap = L.map('map', {
center: [48.7, 11.5],
zoom: 6,
zoomControl: false,
});
//BASEMAPS
var osm = L.tileLayer('http://{s}.tile.osm.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png',
{
attribution: '© <a href="http://osm.org/copyright" target = "_blank">OpenStreetMap</a> contributors'
}).addTo(mymap);
var popup = L.popup();
//popup function
function onMapClick(e) {
popup
.setLatLng(e.latlng)
.setContent("You clicked the map at " + e.latlng.toString()) //esample from leaflet, will be immediately replaced by weatherpopup...
.openOn(mymap);
//getting json function
$(document).ready(function(){
$.ajax({
url: "https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=" + e.latlng.lat + '&lon=' + e.latlng.lng + "&appid=INSERTYOURAPIKEYHERE",
dataType: 'json',
success: function(data) {
// storing json data in variables
weatherlocation_lon = data.coord.lon; // lon WGS84
weatherlocation_lat = data.coord.lat; // lat WGS84
weatherstationname = data.name // Name of Weatherstation
weatherstationid = data.id // ID of Weatherstation
weathertime = data.dt // Time of weatherdata (UTC)
temperature = data.main.temp; // Kelvin
airpressure = data.main.pressure; // hPa
airhumidity = data.main.humidity; // %
temperature_min = data.main.temp_min; // Kelvin
temperature_max = data.main.temp_max; // Kelvin
windspeed = data.wind.speed; // Meter per second
winddirection = data.wind.deg; // Wind from direction x degree from north
cloudcoverage = data.clouds.all; // Cloudcoverage in %
weatherconditionid = data.weather[0].id // ID
weatherconditionstring = data.weather[0].main // Weatheartype
weatherconditiondescription = data.weather[0].description // Weatherdescription
weatherconditionicon = data.weather[0].icon // ID of weathericon
// Converting Unix UTC Time
var utctimecalc = new Date(weathertime * 1000);
var months = ['01','02','03','04','05','06','07','08','09','10','11','12'];
var year = utctimecalc.getFullYear();
var month = months[utctimecalc.getMonth()];
var date = utctimecalc.getDate();
var hour = utctimecalc.getHours();
var min = utctimecalc.getMinutes();
var sec = utctimecalc.getSeconds();
var time = date + '.' + month + '.' + year + ' ' + hour + ':' + min + ' Uhr';
// recalculating
var weathercondtioniconhtml = "http://openweathermap.org/img/w/" + weatherconditionicon + ".png";
var weathertimenormal = time; // reallocate time var....
var temperaturecelsius = Math.round((temperature - 273) * 100) / 100; // Converting Kelvin to Celsius
var windspeedknots = Math.round((windspeed * 1.94) * 100) / 100; // Windspeed from m/s in Knots; Round to 2 decimals
var windspeedkmh = Math.round((windspeed * 3.6) * 100) / 100; // Windspeed from m/s in km/h; Round to 2 decimals
var winddirectionstring = "Im the wind from direction"; // Wind from direction x as text
if (winddirection > 348.75 && winddirection <= 11.25) {
winddirectionstring = "North";
} else if (winddirection > 11.25 && winddirection <= 33.75) {
winddirectionstring = "Northnortheast";
} else if (winddirection > 33.75 && winddirection <= 56.25) {
winddirectionstring = "Northeast";
} else if (winddirection > 56.25 && winddirection <= 78.75) {
winddirectionstring = "Eastnortheast";
} else if (winddirection > 78.75 && winddirection <= 101.25) {
winddirectionstring = "East";
} else if (winddirection > 101.25 && winddirection <= 123.75) {
winddirectionstring = "Eastsoutheast";
} else if (winddirection > 123.75 && winddirection <= 146.25) {
winddirectionstring = "Southeast";
} else if (winddirection > 146.25 && winddirection <= 168.75) {
winddirectionstring = "Southsoutheast";
} else if (winddirection > 168.75 && winddirection <= 191.25) {
winddirectionstring = "South";
} else if (winddirection > 191.25 && winddirection <= 213.75) {
winddirectionstring = "Southsouthwest";
} else if (winddirection > 213.75 && winddirection <= 236.25) {
winddirectionstring = "Southwest";
} else if (winddirection > 236.25 && winddirection <= 258.75) {
winddirectionstring = "Westsouthwest";
} else if (winddirection > 258.75 && winddirection <= 281.25) {
winddirectionstring = "West";
} else if (winddirection > 281.25 && winddirection <= 303.75) {
winddirectionstring = "Westnorthwest";
} else if (winddirection > 303.75 && winddirection <= 326.25) {
winddirectionstring = "Northwest";
} else if (winddirection > 326.25 && winddirection <= 348.75) {
winddirectionstring = "Northnorthwest";
} else {
winddirectionstring = " - currently no winddata available - ";
};
//Popup with content
var fontsizesmall = 1;
popup.setContent("Weatherdata:<br>" + "<img src=" + weathercondtioniconhtml + "><br>" + weatherconditionstring + " (Weather-ID: " + weatherconditionid + "): " + weatherconditiondescription + "<br><br>Temperature: " + temperaturecelsius + "°C<br>Airpressure: " + airpressure + " hPa<br>Humidityt: " + airhumidity + "%" + "<br>Cloudcoverage: " + cloudcoverage + "%<br><br>Windspeed: " + windspeedkmh + " km/h<br>Wind from direction: " + winddirectionstring + " (" + winddirection + "°)" + "<br><br><font size=" + fontsizesmall + ">Datasource:<br>openweathermap.org<br>Measure time: " + weathertimenormal + "<br>Weatherstation: " + weatherstationname + "<br>Weatherstation-ID: " + weatherstationid + "<br>Weatherstation Coordinates: " + weatherlocation_lon + ", " + weatherlocation_lat);
},
error: function() {
alert("error receiving wind data from openweathermap");
}
});
});
//getting json function ends here
//popupfunction ends here
}
//popup
mymap.on('click', onMapClick);
</script>
</body>
</html>
To receive the .json data from openweathermap I'm using jquery ajax request:
$(document).ready(function(){
$.ajax({
url: "https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/weather?lat=" + e.latlng.lat + '&lon=' + e.latlng.lng + "&appid=134c379c7ae600ae9be14acedade3faf",
dataType: 'json',
success: function(data) {
// storing json data in variables
weatherlocation_lon = data.coord.lon; // lon WGS84
Where to find what data is described at https://openweathermap.org/current
