Case Study: Continuus Technologies achieves real-time National Park discovery and integrated weather forecasts with Alteryx

Continuus Technologies - Customer Case Study

Continuus Technologies’ Business Intelligence team built a timely tool for National Park Week 2018 to solve a simple but unmet problem: find nearby National Parks and Monuments, identify their features, and see up-to-date weather. Existing options (NPS’s state‑level search and inconsistent Google Maps results) didn’t provide precise, location-based park discovery with reliable forecasts, so the team set out to deliver a modern, accurate search experience.

Using Alteryx Designer, the team developed batch macros to pull park data from the National Park Service API and weekly weather summaries from the Dark Sky API, parsed and blended the feeds, matched parks to users by zip code and latitude/longitude, and packaged the logic into a simple app interface. The solution delivers scheduled weather updates, reusable API macros for rapid client work, strengthened spatial-analytic capabilities at Continuus, and a flexible template that can be applied to other location‑based use cases while encouraging park exploration and preservation.

Continuus Technologies

Courtney Guc

Business Intelligence Engineer