At just 2.5 years old, Wet Dog Weather proves that expanding weather tech horizons is about more than how long you’ve been around—it’s about how boldly you approach innovation. We might be young, but we’re already making waves in the meteorological and geospatial tech world. This year has been a testament to our commitment to pushing boundaries and exploring new technological frontiers.
Here are a few things we did this year.
Trade Shows: Expanding Our Weather Tech Horizons
We had a booth at the American Meteorological Society, AMS, meeting in lovely Baltimore at the beginning of the year in January. It was a good show, and we’re looking forward to New Orleans this coming year.
There was no booth, but we did go to State of the Map in Salt Lake City over the summer. It was really, really hot, but it was a great conference. We’re looking forward to Boston in June next year.
We had a booth at the Met Tech Expo in Vienna in the fall. That was as nice as it sounds and a great show.
Rounding out the year, we just returned from the American Geophysical Union, AGU, show in Washington, D.C. It was a bit rainy, but I liked it. I am from D.C., so it’s always nice to go back.
We’re moving outside our comfort zone, AMS, and trying new things. AGU was an experiment, and we’ll try other conferences for our products this coming year. This approach of expanding weather tech horizons is helping us grow and explore new opportunities.
Terrier: Pushing Technological Boundaries
Our front-end display toolkit, Terrier, has had a big year, particularly on the web.
We now support MapLibre, Leaflet, and ArcGIS Web SDK.
Each was interesting in its own way and took very different approaches to data display. Still, we were able to successfully integrate with each.
On the mobile side, we added support for the Apple Vision Pro and, yet to be announced, Mapbox’s mobile toolkit for iOS. These additions are part of our ongoing mission of expanding weather tech horizons.
Boxer & Labrador: Cloud Innovations
Our cloud offerings saw some significant developments. Boxer ingested at least double the number of data models, and several interesting architectural changes occurred. That deserves its own blog post.
We added the Static Tile Service to promote backward compatibility, which serves WMTS and WMS. You can tell it’s boring because it doesn’t have a dog name.
We also launched a new cloud product, Labrador. We’re really excited about this one as it will let our users (and us!) access any data set stored in a Boxer stack from Python using Zarr. This launch represents another significant step in expanding weather tech horizons.
One of the fancy new apps built on Labrador is our Web Coverage Service (WCS) support. That’s an OGC standard for accessing spatial data sets. We’ll also be building all sorts of neat stuff on top of Labrador.
MapLibre Native: Strategic Collaboration
We continued our association with MapLibre on the development and management sides. In addition to a long list of bug fixes and changes to make things more GPU-friendly, the team implemented Vulkan support for Android.
We’ll continue our work with them next year as well.
What’s Coming Next Year
Next year will be more of the same. We need to explain what’s in Boxer 2, our newly deployed back end. Customers are already using it to good effect.
Other than that, more features, trade shows, and hopefully more blog posts. Our commitment to expanding weather tech horizons continues to drive our innovation and growth.