Weather radar overlays

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Daniel Matthews

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Oct 1, 2016, 10:25:28 AM10/1/16
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I am rather keen on integration of a precipitation radar as an overlay but have not had any success. So far I have entered
L.tileLayer('http://{s}.tile.openweathermap.org/map/clouds/{z}/{x}/{y}.png', {
attribution: 'Map data © OpenWeatherMap',
maxZoom: 18
}).addTo(map);
As well as a number of various changes to the above.
I have been unable to find anything anywhere that can provide a map source link that works.
Has anyone else been able to achieve this?

Tim Millard

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Oct 2, 2016, 4:02:00 AM10/2/16
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US-only NEXRAD weather radar source works for me on Android.

http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cache/tile.py/1.0.0/nexrad-n0q-900913/{0}/{1}/{2}.png

Paul Johnson

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Oct 4, 2016, 6:48:06 AM10/4/16
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On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 3:02 AM, Tim Millard <milla...@gmail.com> wrote:
US-only NEXRAD weather radar source works for me on Android.

http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cache/tile.py/1.0.0/nexrad-n0q-900913/{0}/{1}/{2}.png

Is that all of the US or just Iowa? 

Andy Townsend

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Oct 4, 2016, 8:01:55 AM10/4/16
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I've used one of the "rainfall" layers from OpenWeatherMap (using
Leaflet directly rather than OsmAnd) and found the tiles a bit slow,
though it did show something that claimed to be rainfall.

Quite a few weather services use leaflet- or openlayers-based overlay
maps (e.g. the UK's Met Office, Norway's yr.no), so you might be able to
figure something out from there (subject to the sites' Ts and Cs of course).

Tim Millard

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Oct 11, 2016, 1:51:41 AM10/11/16
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Covers all the US that has NEXRAD (lower 48, parts of Alaska, maybe Hawaii).

Paul Johnson

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Oct 11, 2016, 11:35:52 AM10/11/16
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What's the easiest way to implement this in Osmand?
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