leaflet-openweathermap

Example screenshot with several active layers

leaflet-openweathermap is a JavaScript library providing easy access to OpenWeatherMap's features for Leaflet-based maps.

OpenWeatherMap (OWM) is a service providing weather related data, visualizing it using an OpenLayers based map. A Leaflet library is available but is it is very limited and uses an old API.

Source

Get it from Github: leaflet-openweathermap

Features

The main features are:

• Licensed under CC0
• Simple access to all tile layers
  • The tile layers are* Clouds, Clouds Classic, Precipitation, Precipitation Classic, Rain, Rain Classic, Snow, Pressure, Pressure Contour, Temperature, Wind
  • a legend for each layer can be displayed, too, but only a few are available out of the box
  • you can provide your own legend image
• Simple access to current weather data (cities and stations)
  • support for OWM's API key (everything works without a key but it is recommended to get a free one at OWM/appid
  • set a minimal zoom for fetching data
  • show a progress indicator when loading data from OWM (can be custumized or just disabled)
  • caching of current weather items
  • automated refresh of current weather data every n minutes
  • simple client side clustering of current weather items
  • prepared for different languages (en is default, de/ru/fr are still incomplete - please help if you know the correct terms)
• A lot of configuration options for builtin popups
  • configurable temperature units (K, °C, F)
  • configurable speed units (m/s, km/h, mph, Beaufort scala)
  • show or hide some values in popup
  • number of decimal places used for speed or temperature
  • include your own set of weather icons if you have one
  • keep an open popup open if map is moved and the popup's marker is still visible
• If you don't like the builtin markers or popups
  • provide your own function for generating current weather markers
  • switch off all popups or
  • provide your own function for generating current weather popups

Example

Read the documentation (README.md) with examples at GitHub or just look at the working example at OpenWeatherMap for Leaflet

Screenshots