Disambiguation of Intermediate Front End Development Project: Show the local Weather JSON data

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https://fcc-weather-api.glitch.me/api/current?lat=35&lon=139
what system of measurement is this information in? I use the metric system…

Specifically, the UNITS OF MEASUREMENT for some of the numbers:

visibility = 4426 metres or units of??
wind.speed = 3.1 knots or km/hr or units of??
wind.deg = 320 units of?? and what is deg in relation to wind??? is it direction of wind flow?
clouds.all = 90 units of???
sunrise= 1508532907 units of?
sunset= 1508572890 units of?

sorry if these values change in the link they are dynamic.

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http://openweathermap.org/current#current_JSON

There’s no visibility in the JSON example, but the other formats say it’s in meters.

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I’m a little confused here - is the freeCodeCamp weather API just a wrapper for this OpenWeatherMap API?

I’ve been trying to find some documentation for the FCC Weather API, and I can only find the pass-through link they supplied that introduces the “Show the Local Weather” project

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If I’m not mistaken, it was made to avoid the hassle of signing up for API keys, and to avoid the problems with the OpenWeather API served over HTTP

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Seems reasonable. Is there anywhere that explicitly states this? I’m mostly curious at this point as there are a lot of articles on Medium where people use the OpenWeatherMap API.

I even tried looking for the FCC-Weather-API project on glitch.com, but I couldn’t find anything about it there.

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Here’s the GitHub issue I found about this:

I also found the source code for fcc-weather-api on glitch. Indeed it uses the OpenWeatherMap API.
https://glitch.com/edit/#!/fcc-weather-api?path=server.js:1:0

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Thank you so much for your help! I was pretty convinced that it used the OpenWeatherMap API, but it is nice to have something concrete proving this fact.

I suppose this is a sign of how new I am to all of this, but I’m not active on GitHub at all and that would have helped me a lot here.

Thank you once again for your help and the effort you’ve gone to showing those links. I feel a lot more confident about reading through the documentation and it is a big step in me doing this project.

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