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Looks great. However, not being able to drag the globe around is annoying. From the UK, the global and regional maps are centred over Europe, but an overwhelmin
by quarterto 14y ago
Looks great. However, not being able to drag the globe around is annoying. From the UK, the global and regional maps are centred over Europe, but an overwhelming proportion of our weather comes from the Atlantic.
- thegrossman 14y agoGetting smooth animations took an inhuman amount of effort... adding a rotating map would have been a little bit too much for launch. Hopefully we'll get to it in the near future. Regarding the UK, you're right. I'll add a new view that's moved to the west.
- oulipo 14y agoI figured out it was a few PNG files with 3 channels each encoding various time points, and then a simple linear fade between images, or was that more complex? of course, computing & serving those time point samples might be slightly more complex:)