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It's only a little "cool", but I just completed version 1 of a live wallpaper that shows National Weather Service radar imagery. http://www.appidio.com/apps/ra

• shareme 16y ago
  nice one.. very cool
• fluidcruft 16y ago
  This is extremely cool.
• ydant 16y ago
  It's begging for auto-location adjustment (when I land somewhere new on a plane, I'd want to see the nearest tower for where I am). At the very least, there should be a way to pick the nearest towers to your current location easily. Bonus points for calculating what range you would need to have that tower cover your current location. Can the range be shortened even more than 150 miles?
  • ryandvm 16y ago
    Yeah, auto-location was quickly identified as a potential future option. Though it's not quite foolproof because there are a lot of cases in which you don't actually want the nearest radar site, but rather the nearest one upwind of you. Another feature I'm toying with is the ability to stitch together multiple images so you can pick any point in the country as the "center" of the image. As for the radar range, there is all kinds of post processing that could be done to simulate shorter ranges, but the only images the NWS currently produces are either 124 or 248 nautical miles.