cameronoliver

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by cameronoliver 1y ago
"On a boat? With a goat?" is a quote from Green Eggs and Ham, an early-reader children's book by Dr Seuss, published in 1960.
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Kart – Distributed version-control for geospatial and tabular data(kartproject.org)
64 points by cameronoliver 1y ago|8 comments
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by cameronoliver 3y ago
I've changed the map so that it plots annual depth by default now.
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by cameronoliver 3y ago
Thanks—I've changed the map so that it plots annual depth by default now. Yes I agree the popup is "unnecessary", but I wanted to make it easy for the site to be used for extreme stats without having to wade through seasonal
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by cameronoliver 3y ago
Thanks for letting me know—I've fixed that bug now.
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by cameronoliver 3y ago
You're probably right, at least for a decent chunk of the world. Regional merging would be valuable, but compiling a comprehensive set of high-resolution (sub-daily) rainfall data might be quite hard. Hosting costs are reasonably low.
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by cameronoliver 3y ago
Thanks. I'll have a think about how I can make those comparison plots easier to find. Yep, inundation mapping would certainly be useful to a much wider number of people. I'll have to look into the existing competition and work out
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by cameronoliver 3y ago
Yes, I've been focused on sales only for a number of months. XRain is mostly designed to help in situations where data (free or otherwise) isn't available from anywhere else. However I've come to realise that most places have
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by cameronoliver 3y ago
Oh! I've had to be careful to avoid saying it's available "anywhere", because there are certainly people like you who live above 60°N or below 60°S.
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by cameronoliver 3y ago
Thanks! Chloropeths of extreme depths in the map page is a good idea actually.
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by cameronoliver 3y ago
I used IMERG because it's historical satellite measurements, not re-analysis using a model. The focus was on creating extreme precipitation stats at a global scale, something that wasn't previously available. Many potential custom
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Show HN: XRain – Explore rainfall statistics around the world(xrain.info)
114 points by cameronoliver 3y ago|44 comments