StephenKoller / zephyr

🌬 Get weather conditions for drone photography

🌬 Zephyr

Light Zephryos blows the sweetest breeze.

— The Anacreontea, Fragment 41 (trans. Campbell, Vol. Greek Lyric II) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.)

Project goals

Based on weather conditions, help a drone photography pilot answer the following question(s):

• Can I fly at X location today?

(Stretch Goals)

• What about the next 7 days?
• How does Y location compare, better or worse?
• Which date/site combinations are best so I can plan my week?

Typically, the best conditions are:

• daylight
• light to no wind
• no precipitation
• low humidity
• moderate temperatures
  • too cold and batteries suffer
  • too hot and electronics overheat

Roadmap

Core

• get forecast for a given location (today)
  • sunrise / sunset time
  • wind speed
  • temperature / humidity
  • precipitation
• invent some kind of at-a-glance aggregate indicator
  • in other words, answer the question: can I fly here today?

Possible Future Enhancements

• use browser geolocation API to automatically get user's location on load
• show simple map of location
• get multi-day forecast for a given location / date
• allow multiple locations
• more in-depth data visualization
  • sunrise / sunset time
  • wind speed over time
  • temperature / humidity over time
• user authentication
• save multiple locations to user account

Stack

Tool	Purpose
React and TypeScript	component-driven development with static types
Next.js	routing, SSR
isomorphic-unfetch	isomorphic async/await data fetching
Sunrise Sunset	sunrise/sunset times
darksky-api	TypeScript type defs for API response
DarkSky API	weather data
Mapbox API	mapping / geocoding data
Now	deployment

Running project locally

1. check out repository
2. run npm install from the root directory
3. run npm run dev
4. check it out on http://localhost:3000/ 🎉