Building rich and interactive web applications with CoverageJSON

Blower CovJSON ESIP July 2017.pptx (3.32 MB)

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posted on 2017-07-28, 17:11 authored by john blower

_{Web browsers are becoming
increasingly capable as visualisation and analysis platforms}

Lots of tools and libraries are built around images and “simple features”

–GeoJSON, KML, OpenLayers, Leaflet ...

•Formats and tools for scientific / meteorological data are not always web-friendly

–Complex, binary, desktop-oriented

–Large variety, usually community-specific

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•=> Lots of people building ad-hoc solutions for web applications

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•We want to bring scientific data within the reach of more Web and mobile app developers

–Web-friendly formats (i.e. JSON)

–More powerful and reusable visualisation/analysis tools

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