WxChart
(Weather Data Charts)

See the main page for the WxTools overview

Description

This code is for a servlet container to display the data collected from an Oregon Scientific weather station (e.g. the WMR180 and WMR928N), a Pro-Signal weather station (e.g. the PSG04173), or a Fine Offset weather station clone using the WxLog/WxLogger/WxServer and WxVet programs. The name WxChart derives from the common abbreviation 'WX' for "weather conditions".

WxChart displays archived weather data. It was developed by Dauren Sakenov under the supervision of Ken Turner. You can see what the program does by visiting the Stirling Weather History web page. As a convenience, code is included from the JQuery library for JavaScript, and the JFreeChart package for graph display.

Customisation

The location of the base weather data files is required. This needs the getRoot method to be modified in genchart.jsp and index.jsp.

Usage

WxChart should be installed into the Tomcat webapps directory (or equivalent on other containers). Then visit the application URL, e.g. http://localhost:8080/wxchart. This should result in a page that allows weather parameters to be selected and graphed.

Licence

This program is free software. You can redistribute it and/or under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation - either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty, without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You may re-distribute this software provided you preserve this README file.

History

Version 1.0: Ken Turner, 1st September 2011

• First public version

Version 1.1: Ken Turner, 5th September 2011

• the code has now been moved into the overarching package
• the index file has been renamed wxchart.jsp

Version 1.4: Ken Turner, 15th May 2016

• there are now separate "Results" fragment for generated graphs
• earliest and latest dates are now provided for date pickers
• directory files are now sorted into alphabetic order for week data

Version 2.0: Ken Turner, 13th February 2017

• the code has been made available from SourceForge

Version 3.0: Ken Turner, 13th May 2021

• zero is no longer included in the vertical axis by default
• the code has been updated to handle solar radiation readings