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Time lapse visualization of the tornado outbreak April 25th-28th

by hayley on 5/5/11, 7:12 PM with 1 comments

  • by hayley on 5/5/11, 7:21 PM

    Tech details for those interested:

    It's built on top of OpenLayers with Google Maps and OpenStreetMap as base layers.

    It was written in CoffeeScript.

    Jekyll was used to provide a local development server and then also to build a _site directory.

    It's hosted on Google App Engine.