NWS embraces KML (finally)
Remember the difficulty US National Weather Service employee Chuck Hodges from Tulsa had in getting approval for publishing his local weather data as KML? (Take one, two, three) That's so 2005. Now the NWS has gone full bore with KML weather overlays of its radar imagery. These localized network links update every five minutes, contain the past 10 or so overlays, and are timeline enabled — what more do you need to get in touch with your inner weatherman? (Via Google Earth Community)
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Stefan, NWS has been experimenting with KML/KMZ for several months. The NWS is just a part of NOAA, and NOAA has been doing things all year. The Severe Storm Lab for example. And this aurora viewing map. And, especially the project.
Posted by: Frank Taylor at 12:23 UTC, October 25, 2006
If you do a search for KML on the NWS site, the only results are the new RIDGE data and the Tulsa experiment from a year ago. The NOAA is a bigger beast.
Posted by: Stefan at 14:18 UTC, October 25, 2006
I work at a newspaper, and we've been using their radar overlays for several months to get a better handle on severe weather in real time than we could get with the traditional web maps. In fact, the radar maps were the "killer app" that convinced our systems people at the newspaper to install Google Earth out of the box on all the new computers they put in the newsroom. I'd love the kind of forecast stuff that the Tulsa people are (were?) doing.
Posted by: John Fleck at 15:47 UTC, October 26, 2006
Hi I haven't tried this google map thing yet but people who have been on here please tell me if its any good.If it is mail me back but I wont get to it until next weekened because i am going on a vacation tomarrow.
Posted by: kyona at 3:21 UTC, November 05, 2006
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