# wind-js-server

**Repository Path**: opengis-leaflet/wind-js-server

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: wind-js-server
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 1
- **Forks**: 1
- **Created**: 2021-07-28
- **Last Updated**: 2025-05-29

## Categories & Tags

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## README

# wind-js-server [![NPM version][npm-image]][npm-url] [![NPM Downloads][npm-downloads-image]][npm-url]

Simple demo rest service to expose [GRIB2](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRIB) wind forecast data 
(1 degree, 6 hourly from [NOAA](http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/)) as JSON. <br/>

Consumed in [leaflet-velocity](https://github.com/danwild/leaflet-velocity).
Contains a pre-packaged copy of [grib2json](https://github.com/cambecc/grib2json) for conversion.

Data Vis demo here: http://danwild.github.io/leaflet-velocity

Note that this is intended as a crude demonstration, not intended for production use.
To get to production; you should improve upon this or build your own.

## install, run:

(assumes you have node and npm installed)

```bash
# from project root:
npm install
npm start
```

## endpoints
- **/latest** returns the most up to date JSON data available
- **/nearest** returns JSON data nearest to requested
	- $GET params:
		- `timeIso` an ISO timestamp for temporal target
		- `searchLimit` number of days to search beyond the timeIso (will search backwards, then forwards)
- **/alive** health check url, returns simple message

## License
MIT License (MIT)

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