Live Weather Maps

Hi All and thanks for taking the time to read this.

There a few posts on Thwack regarding the use of live weather maps on NOC views. Every now and again i take a look at these and attempt to get one working, so far with little success.

One issue i have is a i can't make use of the WorldWide Map as i can't control the location details entered into the nodes and therefore have nodes located in places which i don't have nodes located - if you follow me.

I'd like to use an animated map - or one that gets refreshed each time the NOC view get refreshed.

I've just followed this post by miadine date back in 2012 Re: How to insert regional (3 states) map with live weather into Orion Map but just end up with moving rain clouds and no back ground map. Clearly i'm missing something really basic here. (thanks for the post miadine btw)

Are there any detailed procedures out there to follow?

Any asistance is very much appreciated.

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designerfx over 5 years ago +1

I'd also look at this steve.cabot - https://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-171232#start=175 - google maps overlay into the map + then you can pull in weather
mtr over 1 year ago in reply to rschroeder +1

Hi Rick,

Which HTML code you are using here?

0 tallyrich over 5 years ago

I use this for Radar:
<center><img src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/3.0/weather/maps/nxrd_nh_.gif">
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0 cabotski over 5 years ago in reply to tallyrich

Thanks Richard. I guess i should've mentioned i'm based in the UK, but that matters little until i can figure out how this works.
How do you get the .gif into the custom html ? - apologies for the daft question!
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0 tallyrich over 5 years ago in reply to cabotski

No problem, I just inserted the custom html object then go to the page and select edit. Pasting all of this
<center><img src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/3.0/weather/maps/nxrd_nh_.gif">
does it.
To obtain the map I go to www.cnn.com/weather and click on the image I want. Right click on that image and you'll get the underlying url. Here's another as an example.
<center><img src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/3.0/weather/maps/nxrd_nh_.gif">
It will be for you just finding a source that posts their weather radar as an animated Gif
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0 cabotski over 5 years ago in reply to tallyrich

Thanks Richard - I understand now. Like you say - my problem is finding somewhere that covers the UK as an animated gif! Have a nice weekend!
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0 designerfx over 5 years ago

I'd also look at this steve.cabot - https://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-171232#start=175 - google maps overlay into the map + then you can pull in weather
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0 cfizz34 over 4 years ago

Does anyone else have animated gif's besides CNN? The ones I am seeing are not accurate and pretty useless. Heck, one is not even updating and shows yesterdays radar.
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0 cfizz34 over 4 years ago in reply to cfizz34

Found a couple from weather underground:
<center><img src="https://icons.wxug.com/data/weather-maps/radar/united-states/san-antonio-texas-region-current-radar-animation.gif"></center>
<center><img src="https://icons.wxug.com/data/weather-maps/radar/united-states/columbus-georgia-region-current-radar-animation.gif"></center>
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0 mislam9 over 4 years ago

SolarWinds with Aeris Map API integration and NCM Network Map Integration
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0 tallyrich over 4 years ago

At my previous gig I did this and people really appreciated seeing live maps. Having been in New England more than once those maps were used to determine when people needed to be sent home early.
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0 cfizz34 over 2 years ago in reply to tallyrich

Is this still working?
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