Can you provide some documentation on how to extend this please?

[edmund-need2know]

I'd be totally interested in adding additional data for other countries etc, but for the life of me I can't really understand how the code in app.js works, so it's hard to contribute.

Could you write a guide on how to extend the app to support other regions if people can get the data for their country in a standardised data format?

[lukechampine]

Hi, thanks for your interest.

To add a new region, you need two things: temperature data, and a set of geoJSON coordinates. The coordinates should be a set of hexagons that tile the region of interest. Then you would add each hexagon as an entry in data/hex50kmWxStations2.js, e.g.:

{
    "type": "Feature",
    "properties": {
        "id": 9540,
        "avgBelow": [<temp data here>],
        "minBelow": [<temp data here>],
        "maxBelow": [<temp data here>],
    },
    "geometry": {
        "type": "Polygon",
        "coordinates": [
            [
                [145.0145452, 13.7925099],
                [144.84681998, 13.99894945],
                [144.92555324, 14.26165831],
                [145.17294417, 14.3177603],
                [145.34053583, 14.11104036],
                [145.26087301, 13.84849989],
                [145.0145452, 13.7925099]
            ]
        ]
    }
}

Okay, but where do we get the temperature data and the coordinates? That part...I can't really help you with. I hired someone on Upwork to build this MVP, and although I know they used the NOAA climate dataset, I don't know where the hexbin coordinates came from, or how they mapped the temperature data to those bins. :/