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Wet Dog Weather
25 APRIL 2022
We've been busy starting a new company! Weather has been a very reliable market for us at mousebird consulting. Our most prominent customers like Dark Sky and Carrot Weather are ho...
WhirlyGlobe-Maply 3.4
14 OCTOBER 2021
Version 3.4 is out and it is good. Wow does time ever fly. Seems like I was just writing about version, er, 3.2. We will not speak of 3.3. It's fine, we just won't speak of it. So ...
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WhirlyGlobe-Maply 3.2
31 MARCH 2021
We've just updated WhirlyGlobe to version 3.2. This includes a lot on the Android side, including better Style Sheet support. And a lot of, lot of, LOT OF random bug fixes for both...
Weather Service in a Box
09 MARCH 2021
Here's a proposal for an open source weather service. The back end pieces you need if you're going to make a decent weather app. At mousebird consulting we've built some of these p...
Location Tracking for Android
22 FEBRUARY 2021
We can now display the user's location in real time using the available GPS and wireless hardware on Android. Of course, you could have always just done this yourself, and many did...
New Blog, Who Dis?
12 FEBRUARY 2021
Hey, don't you love hearing about someone's new blog? It's right up there with vacation photos. Anyway, we have a new blog. The old blog was hosted on a Google property they bought...
An Offer to the Mobile Mapping Community
10 DECEMBER 2020
The short version: We're offering to fix a key problem with the open source version of the Mapbox mobile display toolkit. But it'll cost money. To emphasize, I'm talking about the ...
Closing of the Mapbox APIs
08 DECEMBER 2020
We make WhirlyGlobe-Maply, a mobile map toolkit that's open source and really fast. We'd like money to make it better. The web? Sure, we'd love to make a Javascript/WebGL version. ...