Station List and finding the station closest to coordinates

[jaimefuhr]

I am using the API to get the current temp and conditions by using the browser's location.

I pass the coordinates to get the observationStations. Then I choose the first station on the list to get obervations/latest.

How is the observationStations list indexed? Is it in order of closest to the coordinates or is it random?

[lemonprogis]

I came here to ask the exact same question. I was wondering if I have to do some type of euclidean distance to see which one is the closest or if it was already ordered closest to furthest.

[lemonprogis]

@scadergit, could you provide some input on this? Appreciate it!

[dwhitemv25]

Checking for my gridpoint, the list of stations in the /gridpoints/{wfo}/{x},{y}/stations call are returned in order of increasing distance from the gridpoint.

[lemonprogis]

Thank you for confirming that. I actually did the math against each point and it seemed to line up!

[jaimefuhr]

So it is confirmed that the first station on the list at index is 0 is the closest and that the list is sorted from nearest to farthest.

I will go ahead and accept it as the answer.

Thanks!

[scadergit]

Sorry there was not an earlier answer to this. That is correct. It is in order of nearest to farthest.

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