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Charlie Szymanski

More options Aug 15 2007, 12:46 pm

From: "Charlie Szymanski" <charlie.szyman...@heraldtribune.com>

Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:46:55 -0400

Local: Wed, Aug 15 2007 12:46 pm

Subject: RE: a widget and resurrected RSS feeds

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When there is an active storm, the widget tries to zoom itself in such a way
to give the best view of the storm. This overrides the hand-entered zoom
(and lat & lng) from users. We may look into changing that -- we just wanted
to give focus to storms as a default, and if the zoom is set too low or high
the storm can look very strange.

Otherwise, when there are no storms, the zoom should work fine -- though
it's hard for me to test right now.

Hope that helps,

-----Original Message-----
From: ibiseye@googlegroups.com [mailto:ibiseye@googlegroups.com] On Behalf

Of CassandreRMI
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 12:42 PM
To: IbisEye.com - hurricanes
Subject: Re: a widget and resurrected RSS feeds

This is an amazing site and extremely useful to us. We track
hurricanes as part of our energy consulting business and wanted to add
the widget to our webpage. However, we are having problems with the
zoom function. Whether I entered zoom=1 to zoom=17, the output is the
same image. Is anyone else having problems with this function?

Thanks for your help in advance.

On Jun 27, 11:01 am, Mo <maurice....@tamman.org> wrote:
> My partner Charlie has developed a widget so a sorta ibiseye lite that
> can be inserted into any Web site. It's already up on several NY Times
> regional newspapers' weather pages.

> When there are no named storms brewing, the widget shows "points of
> interest," which can be waves, areas, or points. Tropical waves are
> the ones to watch out for because they're most likely to become
> depressions, etc.

> If a named storm emerges, the widget immediately changes its display
> to show the latest forecast path for that storm. This is a quick way
> to keep your users updated on the latest official storm track. And
> because the widget lets you customize what it shows, it's often better
> than just offering an ugly graphic from a government site.

> To start using the widget, just paste this iframe into your site's
> code:

> <iframe src="http://www.ibiseye.com/widget.aspx?
> height=500&width=500&lat=27.36&lng=-77.5&zoom=4" width="500"
> height="500"
> scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" hspace="0"
> vspace="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"
> ></iframe>

> To customize your display, adjust the URL within the iframe with these
> settings:

> Width: Sets the width of the widget. Be sure to also set this within
> the IFrame tag itself. They should be the same. Minimum is 250.

> Height: Sets the height of the widget. Be sure to also set this within
> the IFrame tag itself. They should be the same. Minimum is 250.

> NoOverlay To turn off the Satellite view, add this parameter to the
> iframe source attribute: &nooverlay=true

> Lat: This is the latitude at which the map centers. ( eg. 27.36)

> Lng: This is the longitude at which the map centers. Default is over
> Florida (eg. -77.5)

> Zoom: This is the map zoom level. It defaults to 3. Range is from 1 to
> 17, with 17 being the most zoomed in.

> Also, we've revived our serious southeast weather alert RSS
feed:http://ibis.htcreative.com/onelegged/RSS/newsfeeds.aspx?feed=alerts
> And our hurricane news feed that includes all national hurricane
> center discussions/outlooks and details about active storms along with
> a standard hurricane-related news
feed.http://www.ibiseye.com/RSS/newsfeeds.aspx?feed=news

> Comments are always welcome.

> Cheers,
> Mo

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