Power TAC Weather Server

Introduction

The Power TAC Weather Server is a dynamic jsf web application for serving weather data from a database.

Getting Started

• Create a database on a properly configured MySQL server.

• Import the data into the database (this needs python > 2.6)

  Get and unzip the weather data files from :

  • http://cdn.knmi.nl/knmi/map/page/klimatologie/gegevens/uurgegevens/uurgeg_344_2001-2010.zip
  • http://cdn.knmi.nl/knmi/map/page/klimatologie/gegevens/uurgegevens/uurgeg_344_2011-2020.zip

  Run import_knmi_data.py :

  $python import_knmi_data.py

  You can check if all reports are imported for the given location and period. Both are declared in the script.

  $python check_weather_data.py

• If you don't have a tomcat server configured, download a copy of apache tomcat 7 (http://tomcat.apache.org).

• Run the ./startup.sh script for apache tomcat

• Copy the example config files, and edit the properties if needed. Usually only db user/pass and the file locations are needed $cp weatherserver.properties.template weatherserver.properties

• Run mvn compile tomcat7:deploy to deploy to tomcat. If needed change the username/password in pom.xml.