by Steve Gifford | Apr 16, 2025 | Terrier
With Terrier, we support weather data display on the web and mobile devices. Weather data is inherently spatial, so we need a map to accompany it. OpenLayers integration provides the perfect solution for combining powerful mapping capabilities with our weather...
by Steve Gifford | Apr 3, 2025 | Greyhound
We’re announcing a sleek, simple version of our gorgeous weather display technology called Greyhound. Sometimes, you just want a straightforward weather display solution that shows radar, temperature, wind, or another standard variable. For example, users may...
by Steve Gifford | Mar 20, 2025 | Data
I’m an outsider in most of the fields I’ve worked in. Long ago, my first job out of college was building terrain database software for military training, but I wasn’t a tank commander. Later, I got into flight simulation, but I’m not a pilot....
by Steve Gifford | Mar 13, 2025 | Data
The other day, I participated in a discussion on open-source adoption and was surprised by some opinions. One really stood out: Some technologists think their companies are still deciding on open source. This is an argument from the early 2000s, perhaps even the late...
by Steve Gifford | Mar 6, 2025 | Data
I live in Northern California, and we were largely spared by wildfires this year. Southern California was obviously not, and Canada and the East Coast of the U.S. got hit pretty hard last year. Effective wildfire smoke tracking has become a significant area of...