Link to radar.weather.gov for more details

shadkeene commented 2 weeks ago

We want to push folks to radar.weather.gov for more details and options for RADAR imagery, outside of the composite reflectivity mosaic that we're providing them.

colinmurphy01 commented 2 weeks ago

Confirming we want to refer people to radar.weather.gov over the viewer?

colinmurphy01 commented 5 days ago

@greg-does-weather for a use case where as a user I'm on beta.weather.gov looking at radar for a specific location, is it possible to link out to radar.weather.gov and use url parameters to show the same location and view? Or would it likely just be a generic link?

greg-does-weather commented 4 days ago

Yep, we can do that. radar.weather.gov takes a URL parameter that includes the center point, zoom level, and type of map to show, among other things.

Documenting here for posterity, the URL parameter is called settings, and is v1_{ base64-encoded JSON string}.

The JSON object looks like this:

{
  agenda: {
    id: 'weather',
    center: [ -92.37, 44.64 ],
    location: [ -100.405, 41.424 ],
    zoom: 7.839999999999999,
    layer: 'bref_qcd'
  },
  animating: false,
  base: 'standard',
  artcc: false,
  county: false,
  cwa: false,
  rfc: false,
  state: false,
  menu: true,
  shortFusedOnly: false,
  opacity: {
    alerts: 0.8,
    local: 0.6,
    localStations: 0.8,
    national: 0.6 }
}

Getting the right settings string would be `?settings=v1_${ btoa(JSON.stringify(obj)) }`

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Link to radar.weather.gov for more details #1648