aeolun / coachaweather

Attempt at a simple weather simulation

Weather Control

Description

I'd been wanting to build something like this for a while. It's a weather simulator based on a few small rules that work together to create a complex simulation.

It's not nearly as interesting as I'd hoped it would be (yet), but I didn't have a lot of time to tweak the parameters. I wanted to add some other components like 'vegetation' and making rain and cloud movement dependent on elevation as well.

Install

This project uses pipenv to manage the environment in which it runs. Running pipenv install should install all the packages you need.

Afterwards, run python manage.py migrate to set up the database.

To initialize the base data necessary to run the app easily, run python manage.py loaddata tile.

Running

You can run the project by calling python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000. If you run it on your local host, you can change the 0.0.0.0 to 127.0.0.1 to be more secure.

Tests

Run the included tests by calling python manage.py test.

Development Comments

• Using div's for the map was not the best idea. It severely restricts the amount of data that can be displayed. It would be a better idea to use a canvas here, but for time restrictions.
• No security, but yeah, I don't think I really mind if someone accesses my weather API
• 4 hours spent. Maybe this is slightly more complex than I expected.
• My REST strategy has broken down a bit.
• 8 hours spent. Yeah, slightly too ambitious to fit it in 8 hours... still need some rules to actually see weather in action.
• Shouldn't have made the processor dependent on the Map model, not really nice for testing.