topic Automatically include current weather conditions for new features in ArcGIS Field Maps Questions

Automatically include current weather conditions for new features

jeffj — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 23:51:14 GMT

Someone at the showcase today asked about having Field Maps automatically include the current weather conditions for newly created features. Here's what I came up with.

Add the service Current Weather and Wind Station Data to your map.

Add a text field to your layer to store the weather conditions.

Using Field Maps web, create a calculated expression for the field and use this Arcade expression:

var searchArea = Buffer($feature, 25, 'miles') var stations = Contains(searchArea, FeatureSetByName($map, 'Stations')) var closest = null var minDistance = Infinity for (var next in stations) { var nextDistance = Distance($feature, next) if (nextDistance < minDistance) { closest = next minDistance = nextDistance } } if (IsEmpty(closest)) { return null } return Text(closest['TEMP'], '#') + 'º F, ' + closest['SKY_CONDTN'] + ', Wind: ' + closest['WIND_SPEED'] + 'km/h'

There are a number of other attributes with interesting information so feel free to customize as you see fit.

Re: Automatically include current weather conditions for new features

AlexVideka — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 13:53:18 GMT

This is awesome Jeff! Do you know whether this would need to be modified to populate a field in a related table (insepction table) connected to the feature class?

We'd be adding a new related record (eg daily inspection) and not a new feature in this use case.

Re: Automatically include current weather conditions for new features

DarinVanDeBerg — Mon, 08 May 2023 20:46:48 GMT

Hi Alex,

Were you able to find any information about your question on the related table? I am looking for the exact same thing! Thank you,

Darin

Re: Automatically include current weather conditions for new features

AlexVideka — Thu, 11 May 2023 13:03:40 GMT

Hi Darin,

Unfortunately, I have not yet had a chance to test out Jeff's solution on related tables. This was a 'nice to have' improvement and has been backlogged for the time being. If you are able to get this going, I'd love to know more!

Alex