News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Wind Map. Parent comment

Re:Wind Map by pierrec on Saturday October 24, 2015 @03:13PM (#10444539)
This one is like a culmination of the other two projects. More features and a lot smoother than earth.nullschool.net, I can really see this being useful for navigation.

It's also a perfect example of why open source kicks ass, with the chain of inspiration from one project to the next.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Wind Map by gearhart on Saturday October 24, 2015 @03:19PM (#10444556)
Totally agree - pages like this really make you feel good about OSS/OD: http://forum.windyty.com/topic/11/can-we-use-pictures-animat...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Wind Map by aw3c2 on Saturday October 24, 2015 @04:26PM (#10444732)
No globe though but the mercator projection (awful for a global map like this).
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Wind Map by pierrec on Saturday October 24, 2015 @04:41PM (#10444780)
Well, this is one of the rare cases where using Mercator as the default projection is justifiable, since this map is most useful for navigation.

An option to switch projections would be very nice, but I can imagine very difficult to implement. earth.nullschool.net has this option, but I'll wager it was only doable because of the the ultra-minimalist map used.

[ Parent | on HN ]