by Steve Gifford | Jul 17, 2024 | Boxer, Terrier
Most weather practitioners have a degree in meteorology, atmospheric science, or something similar. Sales, marketing, and even software developers often share that background. However, that’s not how I got into weather app development. Years ago, my company at...
by Steve Gifford | Jun 27, 2024 | Data, Terrier
At Wet Dog Weather, we have our own web and mobile display technology called Terrier. It’s crazy good, and we love it! However, we understand that sometimes you need to support the old way of doing things, which is why we also support traditional web mapping...
by Steve Gifford | Jun 20, 2024 | Terrier
At Wet Dog Weather, we’ve primarily dealt with gridded models and observed data, but we’re now expanding our focus to include weather alerts. Our current data sources include GFS, HRRR, RTMA, and high-resolution models provided by and for our customers. We...
by Steve Gifford | Jun 12, 2024 | MapLibre, Terrier
I was recently asked how to do Stamen Watercolor in MapLibre at the State of the Map in Salt Lake City after a talk about Stadia & Stamen’s recent revival of the old Stamen styles. Except Watercolor. There are ways you could hack it at the app level, but a...
by Steve Gifford | May 15, 2024 | Boxer, Data, Terrier
At Wet Dog Weather, our main task is weather data visualization. Our weather map tiles are fast! The whole process is easy, and it looks amazing. We combine a ton of data on the fly in our Terrier for Web SDK. That’s the best way to get the most out of Boxer and...
by Steve Gifford | May 8, 2024 | Data, MapLibre, Terrier
We do some pretty advanced data visualization for weather data. Our Terrier is interactive, low latency, and very pretty. There are many moving parts to that, but we’ll let you in on one of our secrets: Our map toolkit integrations use other peoples’ map...