by Steve Gifford | Nov 14, 2022 | Data
Venture Capitalists love a monopoly. They look for data moats around your product. What is it that you do that would be hard to duplicate? Companies have been doing this forever in the weather space: custom sensors, custom data processing, difficult algorithms, and...
by Steve Gifford | Oct 27, 2022 | MapLibre
At Wet Dog Weather, we are committed to working with Stamen Design to update MapLibre Native’s Metal support on iOS as long as the corporate money flows. That isn’t very clear, so like a beetle in a log, let’s Break It Down. Buckle up because...
by Steve Gifford | Oct 13, 2022 | Data, Terrier
Here’s something we like to do: We keep data in its coordinate system at its cadence and combine it all on the client for display. The Challenge of Coordinate System Diversity You can see it if you look off the coast of California. It starts with RTMA (measured...
by Steve Gifford | Sep 23, 2022 | Data
We refer to our back-end cloud data processing system as ‘Boxer.’ It’s short for ‘Weather Service in a Box’ and also a dog joke. We love dog jokes. Boxer gathers standard data sources (GFS, HRRR, RTMA, etc.) and processes them for rapid...
by Steve Gifford | Aug 11, 2022 | Data, Terrier
Wet Dog Weather is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company. We make a SaaS platform for processing and displaying real-time weather and sensor data. Initially, this is real-time and forecast weather visualization data from your favorite weather app, such as radar,...
