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Oh wow, I made this! I didn't expect to see my map on here Let me know if you have any questions or feedback and I'll do my best to respond to them.
by robhawkes 8mo ago
Oh wow, I made this! I didn't expect to see my map on here
Let me know if you have any questions or feedback and I'll do my best to respond to them.
- ksec 8mo agoTech Stack used? Any specific non-technical difficulty getting this done ?
- robhawkes 8mo agoTech stack is a mix of things, but the big-ticket items: - Dagster for data pipeline - Parquet files for data format - Cloudflare R2 for data storage - DuckDB for data processing - NodeJS for API - NextJS + React for the app - MapLibre for the base map functionality - Deck.gl for the complex map layer (eg. wind particles) - WeatherLayers (+ GFS) for the wind particles - Cloudflare as a caching layer The main difficulty was learning about the underlying data and industry nuances. I've been working on this map the past few years and I'm still learning new things that force me to change my approach. It's an incredibly complex domain and it's part of the reason I made this, to try and make this complex data a bit more digestible.
- jacquesm 8mo agoIt's a beautiful piece of work, thank you very much. It would be amazing if this was extensible and wind farms and solar farms outside of GB could contribute their data as well.
- robhawkes 8mo agoThanks! I would love to make this something that works beyond GB though right now that would require a fundamental change to the way things are set up. It's on my list though, so one day.
- toomuchtodo 8mo agoI do some volunteer work with the https://electricitymaps.com/ https://electricitymaps.com/ folks, highly recommend getting in touch if their API(s) would be of use. I can provide a contact if needed.