by Steve Gifford | Apr 19, 2023 | MapLibre
Wet Dog Weather is thrilled to announce that we’re working on upgrading MapLibre’s Metal renderer support for iOS. In short, we’re fixing a considerable amount of technical debt in an open-source map toolkit many people use. The Road to Metal...
by Steve Gifford | Apr 19, 2023 | Data, Terrier
We’ve been busily working on the radar visualization web support for our display toolkit, Terrier. Yes, everything is named after a dog breed. The Journey to Web-Based Radar Visualization Terrier started on mobile and displayed wind, temperature, radar, and other data...
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...
