Thursday, 15 January 2009: 2:00 PM
Development of a consumer oriented meteorological display system using web mapping services
Room 121BC (Phoenix Convention Center)
With the introduction of web mapping services such as Yahoo! Maps,
Microsoft Virtual Earth, and Google Maps, it has become possible to
create interactive web based applications for displaying geocoded
information like meteorological data. However, these data sets use
formats that mesh poorly with current web development paradigms.
Others have proposed `"tiling" systems that pre-render these data collections
into more amenable formats at varying resolutions. In this paper, we
will show that this technique is not practical for rapidly updating data sets. We will also discuss solutions for ingesting and
displaying surface data, geostationary satellite data, WSR-88D radar
data, numerical weather prediction model data, and other geolocated
data using our web mapping application.
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