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Leaflet/OpenStreetMaps Global mesonet display

The Affiliated Regional Weather Networks have been quite popular, and now it is possible for you to add a Leaflet/OpenStreetMaps map display of conditions from around the world to your own website. We do prefer that the script(s) be used by members who contribute their data to a Regional Weather Network, but all are welcome to use this script set if they like.

Version 4.00 of the script set no longer requires an API key for map display. Support is provided for Mapbox.com map tile displays if you have an Access Token, but 5 supplied maps are 'API key free'.

Here's a sample of the display:

Note: in the sample above, the network list links are NOT with target="_blank" to open in a new window/tab since this website is XHTML 1.0-Strict and that attribute is disallowed. The links in the popup windows for the markers are generated with target="_blank" since the validator cannot process JavaScript-generated HTML :)..

Installation/Configuration

The map package (below) comes in one basic configuration:

• A PHP map for standalone or a plugin for the Saratoga AJAX/PHP templates (V2 and V3 compatible)

The two support scripts (global-links.php and global-conditions-json.php ) are included to help minimize the access time to draw your map page by caching some files from the Affiliated Regional Weather Networks home site locally on your website. These files are:

• network-list-inc.html
• network-links-inc.html
• member-count.txt
• members-list-inc.html
• global-conditions.json

Starter files of the above are included with the PHP distributions with content that lets you know that the cache file has not been written. Depending on your PHP installation, the above files may need to have permissions set to 666 (write/read by all) in order for the caching to work. If you do a 'view-source' on the PHP page with the scripts in it, it should show any error messages encoutered as HTML comments.

For the Saratoga multilingual templates, you may need to add to your language-LL-local.txt files the translations for:

Which will allow for the translation of the headings and pop-up station data boxes to language LL. You may also need to copy wxglobal-en.html to wxglobal-LL.html and translate the text inside from English to language LL so the rest of the page will display correctly. Be sure to use the correct character set for your page to match the other translation files used by the Multilingual templates. The multilingual plugin will also read the corresponding language-LL.js JavaScript so the conditions, wind-directions and barometric pressure trend can be translated in the popup conditions windows.
Note: if you create a translation for the multilingual template map, please let me know so I can include it in the global-map-template-ML distribution so others can use it too. Thanks in advance!

Version 4.00 now has configuration in one file global-map-settings.php. See the comments in that file to perform your own configuration.
See the global-map-README.txt file for more information about installation.
Also new in V4.00 are rotating conditions display under the station pins. This feature can be disabled in the configuration if you find it too 'busy' a display.

Downloads

Version history

• Version 4.02 - 11-Feb-2019 - updated global-links.php V4.02, global-conditions-json.php V4.02 for HTTP/2 support
• Version 4.01 - 12-Aug-2018 - updated global-map-lang-inc.php to use base64 decode before unserialize for $L language array (changed global-map-settings.php, global-map-inc.php)
  Fixed issue with station links in popup windows in global-map-genjs-inc.php
• Version 4.00 - 12-Aug-2018 - rewrite to use Leaflet/OpenStreetMaps instead of Google Maps so no API key required.
• Version 2.02 - 16-Jan-2017 - added fix for https Station URLs
• Version 2.01 - 05-Jul-2016 - added support for required Google Map Browser JavaScript API key
• Version 2.00 - 27-Nov-2013 - Rewritten for Google Maps API V3 and added selectable units controls for display.
• Version 1.01 - 17-Nov-2013 - Google deprecated V2 of the Maps API so this script became non-operational. Replacement using V3 API underway.
• Version 1.01 - 20-Jul-2010 - (html, php, template, template-ML) added ability to have links generated with target="_blank" and control for directory usage for cache files.
• Version 1.00 - 17-Jul-2010 - Initial Release