Add NOAA Weather Radar, Warnings and Stations to your GIS App

Have you ever considered adding weather information to your GIS app? Industries such as agriculture, public safety, aerospace and others can greatly benefit by adding real-time weather information. NOAA provides all the data and Map Suite has all the necessary APIs that allow you to easily enhance your mapping application. Whether you are looking for radar information, weather stations, weather watches & warnings ThinkGeo has you covered.

The weather station data and APIs allows you to display up-to-date weather station data from around the world on top of your maps. For the US NOAA also provides real time weather watches, warnings and advisory polygons as a feature layers which you can use as an overlay. Additionally for the US, NOAA also provides weather radar images. All this data is refreshed approximately every 5-15 minutes in the background. With all these APIs you have full control over transparency so you can easily see the affected areas beneath the radar images, weather watches and warnings polygons.

If you are a programmer looking to build a new app that requires weather information you can try out Map Suite for free. Start your weather app by downloading the sample Center directly from GitHub.