Weather plugin

• Reference name: GoogleWeatherPlugin
• Source: googleweatherplugin.js

Features

• Generates Weather widgets (list items) for concepts that refer to locations.
• Promotes the maps to a interactive Google Map with a weather layer centered on the targeted coordinates with the weather overlay, in modal window.

Dependencies

• LDPlugin

Web API connections

• This plugin reacts to annotations that contain in their resource fields Geonames API calls that point to the annotated location.
• The Geonames API response is in XML format. The plugin processes this response, by extracting the location name, the latitude and longitude in decimal form.
• A Google Map API query string is being built with the extracted information.

Widgets

• One widget composed of: a button with a green map icon and the targeting location name.

Events

• This plugin will attach the rendering logic of the widgets in the becomeActive event handler of each annotation that contains a Geonames call in it resource field.
• Each widget is active to click events and will trigger a modal window with a interactive Google Map centered on the targeted location.

Display in the modal window

• On clicking of taping the widget, the plugin will generate a Google map centered in the location name.
• The modal window will take a width of 70% and height of 70% of the display resolution.