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:
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:
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.
-----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:
I understand the logic behind the design to override the hand-entered zoom when there is an active storm. However, take today's active storm, Erin... The current default zoom level of Erin makes it difficult to figure out the location of the storm on an initial glance as most of the land masses are cut off by the zoom. Manually zoom one step out and you can tell the storm is approaching Texas.
I would assume many users would be eager to view the storms in relation to surrounding geographic points/landmasses upon first look. I do realize one can manually zoom in and out using the + and - scale on the picture, but it would be nice to be able to customize the initial widget zoom settings. Please keep that in mind for the future if it is possible.
<charlie.szyman...@heraldtribune.com> wrote: > 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,
> CS
> -----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:
I may fiddle with the zooming after these current storms have passed (always hesitate to make changes while storms are going on...).
Part of the problem is that it's really hard to automate the zoom level. What it tries to do is take the path of the storm, combine it with the first few forecast points, and draw a box around it and zoom appropriately. The problem lies in the fact that occasionally the points are closer together, and occasionally they are further apart. And sometimes they're over water, and sometimes over land. It's hard to make a system that guesses appropriately, especially when you want it zoomed in more when the storm is approaching landfall, but want it zoomed out while over water.
As you can imagine, a lot of tweaking is involved. Right now if it's East of a certain longitude (and thus over the open atlantic) it zooms a couple of levels further out to make sure more of the track is visible. That system was never put into place over the Gulf, so you see an image that is a little too tight now.
-----Original Message----- From: ibiseye@googlegroups.com [mailto:ibiseye@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of CassandreRMI Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 2:18 PM To: IbisEye.com - hurricanes Subject: Re: a widget and resurrected RSS feeds
Thanks for your reply.
I understand the logic behind the design to override the hand-entered zoom when there is an active storm. However, take today's active storm, Erin... The current default zoom level of Erin makes it difficult to figure out the location of the storm on an initial glance as most of the land masses are cut off by the zoom. Manually zoom one step out and you can tell the storm is approaching Texas.
I would assume many users would be eager to view the storms in relation to surrounding geographic points/landmasses upon first look. I do realize one can manually zoom in and out using the + and - scale on the picture, but it would be nice to be able to customize the initial widget zoom settings. Please keep that in mind for the future if it is possible.
Thanks again for reading our comments!
On Aug 15, 11:46 am, "Charlie Szymanski" <charlie.szyman...@heraldtribune.com> wrote: > 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,
> CS
> -----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:
