Link to radar.weather.gov for more details

[shadkeene]

We want to push folks to radar.weather.gov for more details and options for RADAR imagery, outside of the composite reflectivity mosaic that we're providing them.

[colinmurphy01]

Confirming we want to refer people to radar.weather.gov over the viewer?

[colinmurphy01]

@greg-does-weather for a use case where as a user I'm on beta.weather.gov looking at radar for a specific location, is it possible to link out to radar.weather.gov and use url parameters to show the same location and view? Or would it likely just be a generic link?

[greg-does-weather]

Yep, we can do that. radar.weather.gov takes a URL parameter that includes the center point, zoom level, and type of map to show, among other things.

Documenting here for posterity, the URL parameter is called settings, and is v1_{ base64-encoded JSON string}.

The JSON object looks like this:

{
  agenda: {
    id: 'weather',
    center: [ -92.37, 44.64 ],
    location: [ -100.405, 41.424 ],
    zoom: 7.839999999999999,
    layer: 'bref_qcd'
  },
  animating: false,
  base: 'standard',
  artcc: false,
  county: false,
  cwa: false,
  rfc: false,
  state: false,
  menu: true,
  shortFusedOnly: false,
  opacity: {
    alerts: 0.8,
    local: 0.6,
    localStations: 0.8,
    national: 0.6 }
}

Getting the right settings string would be `?settings=v1_${ btoa(JSON.stringify(obj)) }`

[colinmurphy01]

@igorkorenfeld @sarahmhgov this is something that fell off our to-do list. Is this something we want included for r8?

[coreypieper]

Let's do the same thing for satellite. For example, satellite here could link to this.