This is a script to download and process wind data for cambecc's fantastic D3 global map of environmental data. This is part of our effort to use this system in a museum exhibit at the Conner Prairie Interactive History Park.

This is a work in progress and is customized to our specific needs right now, although I hope to abstract it more in the future.

grib2json is a Java application that converts the GRIB data files from NOAA into the JSON files that we need for the wind app.

The install documentation for grib2json is a little sparse. Generally follow these steps to get this application to work on the exhibit systems.

• Install the latest JAVA SDK
• Install Maven with homebrew brew install maven
• Clone the grib2json repo git clone https://github.com/cambecc/grib2json.git
• In that folder run the maven package command to build the software mvn package
• This will create a archive. Open that and move the contents to your /Applications folder

Older versions of this script ran on Python 3. Since we're installing Python 3 by default now we updated the script to work with that.

Install with:

pip install docopt