Getting reading from closest station to location in latitude, longitude

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Getting reading from closest station to location in latitude, longitude

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Hi,

I am trying to get data from the API. I can get queries, but I want to get the weather data from a weather station closest to specific coordinates that I give? Is that currently possible

Answer 1 · 2021-02-10T15:51:57.000Z

Hi @IvanNik17

You could get the closest weather station by calculating the haversine distance between your coordinates and all the station locations and finding the lowest (closest) one. I have added a function get_closest_station(latitude, longitude) which can be used for this. Please see version 0.0.3.

Note: This can be implemented more efficient but in order to prevent any unnecessary dependencies I have just used the built-in math library.