by Steve Gifford | Feb 15, 2023 | Terrier
Individually, we have a long history with data visualization on mobile devices. Maybe you’ve used a weather app we’ve helped build. If you’re a pilot, maybe one of the electronic flight bag apps that uses our engine. But the web is new to us. The Vision for Web-Based...
by Steve Gifford | Feb 14, 2023 | MapLibre
Here’s the short version. Amazon paid us for an architectural plan to update MapLibre Native’s Metal rendering. We produced that plan with community support and delivered a couple of shiny new design Pull Requests. Now for the details. The Imperative for Metal...
by Steve Gifford | Feb 6, 2023 | Terrier
Do you like particles? It’s a trick question; everyone likes particles. We do particles! Specifically, we do wind visualization particles. The Art of Particle Streamlines Displaying wind trails is one of the more fun aspects of data visualization. The basic...
by Steve Gifford | Dec 21, 2022 | Data
Did you hear there’s a possible Bomb Cyclone in much of the lower 48 this week? If you follow the weather, ‘bomb cyclone’ is an arresting term for a very cold winter storm. We can let the meteorologists have this. As always, I’m curious how these events look in our...
by Steve Gifford | Dec 8, 2022 | Data, Terrier
In the U.S., we have the NEXRAD system, which spits out an incredible amount of radar data at various levels of detail. If you want the latest and greatest, you can pull individual messages out, which is a blast. Alternatively, you can look at the mosaic radar...
