Mappics without Dark Sky API

[buildvoc10]

hello can you let me know can you use mappics without Dark Sky API?

[antodippo]

Hi @buildvoc10, at the moment is not possible, but I'm planning to make it optional, and/or move to a different provider. Obvious is you have time and ideas contribution are welcome :)

[buildvoc10]

will the app still work with out Dark Sky ?
Support for the Dark Sky API ended on March 31, 2023 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213526

[antodippo]

It won't be able to fetch weather data, the rest is gonna work

[buildvoc10]

hoping to integrate with my site https://buildingshistory.co.uk/#17.67/52.959345/-1.536871/-142.4/48 (only 1 photo at the moment due to performance issues

[antodippo]

It would be interesting to build a REST API to return all the fetched info of the pictures, geocoordinates included, so you could use it from your system. At the moment I don't have much time to build it

[buildvoc10]

Hello could we use https://openweathermap.org/api for weather, this is working with another app, if so how do I start to test it.

[antodippo]

Code wise, I think something like this service is needed: https://github.com/antodippo/mappics/blob/master/src/Infrastructure/Service/DarkSkyWeatherRetriever.php

It's basically retrieving the weather for a specific position and timestamp, and returning a Weather object, so we would need something similar, but using the service you mentioned. I don't have much time to work on it, but if you feel like go ahead, I can help with code reviews :) I see that probably a paid subscription is needed for historical weather though.