Snow Today Viewer demo

2024 edition

Matt Fisher

2024-04-10

Overview

1. Review of front- and back-end design
2. New multi-region complexity: a specification to the rescue!
3. What’s new in the GUI?

Review of front- and back-end design

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New multi-region complexity

• Previously, the data provider -> webapp interface was under-specified
  • We weren’t always on the same page
  • We often needed to post-process data from providers. Confusing!
• 🦸‍♀️ A specification to the rescue!
  • Sebastien Lenard and I collaborated on GitHub to establish firm agreements about the interface.
  • Decisions and discussions result in specification changes.
  • Guided our development and issue resolution.

Visit the specifications page in our docs

What’s new in the GUI?

1. User is greeted by splash-style super-region selector
   • Many more regions to come!
2. Recurse through sub-sub-regions indefinitely
3. UI usability tweaks
   • Plot and map titles now more consistent and complete
   • Legends now motionless and out of the way
   • Darker default basemap

Visit the GUI