posted on 2017-07-28, 17:08authored byJon Blower, Maik Riechert, Guy Griffiths, Mridul Kumar, Riley Williams
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
=> Lots of people building ad-hoc solutions for web applications
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 Support for semantic content