MapWinds

MapWinds is a web application that provides an interactive interface to visualize wind data, including a 7-day forecast. Users can view color-coded wind arrows indicating wind direction, plot routes by selecting waypoints on the map, and retrieve real-time wind data for those waypoints. The coordinates for the waypoints and real-time wind data are displayed in a tabular format.

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Following are the key aspects of the application:

-Website is hosted on AWS EC2 instance

-The wind data is obtained from PacIOOS API automatically once a day by a python script that manipulates the data for suitable usage and save it to a postGreSQL database

-The date selection calls on the backend which in turn queries the database and send relevant data to the frontend

-The website also contains an animation feature to visualize changing wind data over the next 7 days

-User can plot their routes on the map

-The waypoints selected will be shown in a tabular manner along with providing real time wind data obtained from OpenWeather API calls

-The map, route and waypoints are configured with the help of Leaflet library

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The project is under progress. Further feautures will include authentication, saving, editing, retrieval and deleting of user created routes.