By Faisal Alhammad, GIS Specialist, Dhahran, Eastern Provence, Saudi Arabia

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Code Summary

The process of creating a wind corridor at a location specified by the user. The wind corridor graphic will be drawn based on the information acquired by the nearest Weather station. Furthermore, at regular intervals the graphic will be updated from the Weather station data. A second graphic representing the maximum wind speed and wind variability will be displayed along with the current wind corridor.


Features:
- Does a spatial query using ArcObjects API to find the nearest weather station within 50 kilometer radius of user selected location.
- It draws two wind corridor web graphics using AJAX, one represents the current wind corridor and the second one represents the historical wind corridor.
- Displays the Weather data information on a pop up window.
- At regular intervals both corridor graphics & Weather data information gets updated.
- Weather data in this demo is randomly generated to simulate an actual data read from a Weather station.
- This tool can be extended further to perform another spatial query using wind corridor graphics.