A tool to collect and serve wind prediction data. Designed to have pluggable backends for multiple wind-prediction services. So far UCAR is the only source and covers just the continental US.
Installation
Use pip to install from PyPI:
pip install django-winds
Add django_winds to your settings.py file:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
...
'django_winds',
...
)
Additional Requirements
beautifulsoup4 to parse the XML served by THREDDS
django-tastypie to generate the API
Django Settings
DJANGO_WINDS_CACHE_TIMEOUT - Number of minutes to cache endpoint responses.
DJANGO_WINDS_DEMO_MODE - True/False… not implemented yet.
Acquiring Data
django-winds is really just a extract and transport layer for data. It exposes an API that takes a Point (latitude/longitude) and returns wind predictions for that location.
Contributing
Think this needs something else? To contribute to django-tides create a fork on Bitbucket. Clone your fork, make some changes, and submit a pull request.
Bugs are great contributions too! Feel free to add an issue on Bitbucket.
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