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Weather Layer now available in the Google Maps API
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Please note that the weather layer is no longer available in the Google Maps JavaScript API. For more information, see the blog post on
sunsetting the Weather and Panoramio libraries
.
For the past month, I have been lucky enough to work as an intern on the Google Maps API team in Sydney. I’ve had a great time so far, and I’m looking forward to my remaining two months. For now, I’d like to share with you the fruits of my first project, which was to bring the weather layer from Google Maps to the Maps API.
The weather layer was
launched on Google Maps
in August 2011, with cloud imagery from the
U.S. Naval Research Lab
and weather forecast information from
weather.com
. Since then, access to the weather layer in the Maps API has been a feature frequently requested by developers.
The weather layer is now provided in the Maps API by the
weather
library, which consists of two classes:
WeatherLayer
and
CloudLayer
. The
WeatherLayer
class displays the current weather conditions at various locations, as well as a forecast for the next four days when a user clicks on one of the icons. You can configure the units of temperature (degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit) and wind speed (km/h, mph, or m/s), just like
maps.google.com
. The
CloudLayer
class displays satellite imagery of cloud coverage. Try out the demo below.
Check out the
documentation
for more information. If you need any extra assistance or information, we recommend you post your questions to Stack Overflow using the
google-maps-api-3
tag.
We hope you find the weather layers useful, and we look forward to seeing them used in applications around the web. I had a fantastic time implementing them, and learned a lot - many thanks to my colleagues in the Maps API team for all their help and support!
Joey Scarr, Google Maps API team
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