# Student in need of help Setting up Weather API

**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/student-in-need-of-help-setting-up-weather-api/77328
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**Created:** [6 April 2023 20:55 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/student-in-need-of-help-setting-up-weather-api/77328 "2023-04-06T20:55:23Z")
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### Author: ![dynamicdave](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dynamicdave/32/96_2.png) [@dynamicdave](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dynamicdave)
#### Post date: [7 April 2023 04:25 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/student-in-need-of-help-setting-up-weather-api/77328/6 "2023-04-07T04:25:27Z")

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This might give you some ideas of how to plot "things" on the worldmap.

> [@Plotting the location of wildfires on the Dashboard](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/plotting-the-location-of-wildfires-on-the-dashboard/63048):
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> Just been working on a "fun" project for my IoT students. Plotting the location of wildfires on the Dashboard. It makes use of data from NASA to plot markers on the worldmap node on the Dashboard. Although most of the function nodes (in the flow) use JavaScript, there is a section in the tutorial-guide that introduces some very basic JSONata to query and transform the array-data received from NASA. I must give credit to @E1cid for his work creating the Jsonata in the Chan…

Although it's for plotting wildfires using data from NASA, I'm sure the concept could be adapted.

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