Weather.com introduces interactive maps

Posted Feb 26th 2007 1:15PM by David Chartier
Filed under: Internet, Web services

I admittedly don't spend any significant amount of time at Weather.com, but a little birdie who does just tipped us off to a new Interactive Weather Map beta that still has that new feature shine to it. The map offers full drag-able goodness, with the ability to swap between Radar, Clouds and Clouds + Radar coverage. On-the-fly transparency of said coverage is also present, as well as a slow-frame animation for those who want to get their amateur weather man on.

All of this is powered by Microsoft's Virtual Earth, and it is indeed an impressive piece of (beta) work, though I can't find any sort of press release or wiz-bang announcement. Now, if Weather.com could only introduce a new 'Reliable Weather™' option (even an alpha would be fine), we'll be in business.

Tags: cloud, cloud coverage, CloudCoverage, clouds, interactive, interactive weather map, InteractiveWeatherMap, microsoft, radar, virtual earth, VirtualEarth, weather, weather.com

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

2-26-2007 @ 4:12PM

Buck Jones III said...

I've been using this new map for a few days and love it! I'm such a weather geek.

It takes a couple seconds to load the animation, but it's really sweet. It updates automatically too.

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