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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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Live Globe
01 MARCH 2012
I'm pleased to announce the release of Live Globe 1.0 on the app store. This app really pushes WhirlyGlobe to its limits in some interesting ways. Live Globe is actually the origin...
MapBox Tiles Support & Other Things
02 FEBRUARY 2012
Right now WhirlyGlobe supports a single resolution of imagery for the globe. You chop it up, feed it to the system and it uses that. I've always planned on supporting image pyramid...
WhirlyGlobe 1.2 - Release Announcement
06 JANUARY 2012
WhirlyGlobe 1.2 - Release Announcement I'm pleased to announce WhirlyGlobe 1.2. This release has been several months in coming and represents a big step for some of the more intera...
WhirlyGlobe 1.2 - Imminent
04 JANUARY 2012
I'm just about to release WhirlyGlobe 1.2. This week is pretty likely, early next week at the latest. Delay, Delay, Delay I was hoping to wrap this up in November; now it's January...
App Store Mention: Santa's Big Helper
30 NOVEMBER 2011
The whole point of doing WhirlyGlobe is for developers to use it. I had in my mind a couple of types of developers who might find it useful: People who just want to toss some info ...
Image Pyramid Support: MapBox Tiles
08 NOVEMBER 2011
I've been planning to add support for multi-resolution images, or image pyramids, for a while. I'm still planning on it. Image Pyramid An image pyramid is pretty much what it sound...