In Geovonic Connect, data sources provide connectivity to third-party business systems. The Open-Meteo Weather data source allows you to current and weather forecast information for anywhere in the world.

Open-Meteo is an open-source weather API and offers free access for non-commercial use. You can learn more about the Open-Meteo service here.

The Open-Meteo weather data source uses the geometry of any selected feature to fetch the weather information. For a point feature, the weather for that point location will be requested; for a polygon or polyline, the weather returned will be for the centroid of the feature.

Data Source Configuration

The Open-Meteo weather data source configuration requires a few fields: –

• Date Format – An ISO locale code to describe the date formatting.
  For example, en-AU for English/Australian or fr for French.

Layer Link Configuration

The Open-Meteo weather layer link configuration has several fields which determine the weather information to be returned.

• Key Attribute – an attribute on the feature layer that contains a unique identifier (e.g. OBJECTID).
• Forecast Type – Daily or Hourly
• Forecast Period (Days) – Only applicable when using a Daily forecast.
• Displayed Time Zone – Optional field to set the time zone to use when displaying timestamps. By default, uses the time zone of the selected map feature.
• Temperature Unit
• Windspeed Unit
• Precipitation Unit