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Website showing historic weather data (taken from wikipedia) for cities around the world on an interactive map.

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Description

Website displaying weather data for a few thousand cities on an interactive map. The data is taken from Wikipedia.

You can find a deployed version here.

The original goal was to have a more efficient way to look at weather tables from Wikipedia to choose travel itineraries.

Prerequisites

docker

Configuration

cp config_sample.json config.json
# and edit the file if needed

Database creation and population

# create a folder where we will put the downloadedfiles
mkdir download

# fetch the list of cities and associated files from geonames.org
wget "http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/admin1CodesASCII.txt" -P downloads
wget "http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/allCountries.zip" -P downloads
wget "http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/countryInfo.txt" -P downloads

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.tx

# parse the city files
python meteomap/parse_geonames.py --admin1codes-file downloads/admin1CodesASCII.txt \
--country-infos-file downloads/countryInfo.txt downloads/allCountries.zip downloads/parsed_geonames_world.gz

# add wiki data
python meteomap/augment_with_wiki.py downloads/parsed_geonames_world.gz downloads/augmented_geonames_world.gz

# create the database
python meteomap/create_database.py

# insert the data in the database
python meteomap/load_database.py downloads/augmented_geonames_world.gz

Running the website

make run
# Go to 0.0.0.0:8000

Deployment to prod

  • pg_dump the database locally and then push it to the prod database.
  • The heroku deployment is in the heroku branch

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