Wow! I can’t believe it’s been five years since I developed Rikitraki. A lot of things have changed in Web development since then, so I think it is time to implement some sorely needed renovations.

Some of the changes are simply to bring the code up to snuff with today’s best practices. But some other changes will be functionality improvements that I have been thinking about for a long time.

In this post, I lay out what I am thinking for the next big release. Comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated.

3D time-based animation of recent (and current) wildfires in Oregon

I am pleased to announce that today I released a new HOWL ‘spotlight’ that maps recent (and current) wildfires in Oregon. This ‘spotlight’ displays wildfire data for the current and two past years from the GeoMAC database of fire perimeters.

Do you want to learn how to use time animations in CesiumJS?

Head over to the Cesium Blog to read my guest post.

The article is a step-by-step tutorial on how to easily use CZML, the CesiumJS data-driven interface to incorporate time dynamic animations in your own applications. The tutorial draws from an example implemented in the OregonHOWL site, used to animate Oregon’s history of wildfires.

It is now possible to pick a location when updating content

Adding a new item to the Threats ‘spotlight’ grabs the latitude and longitude of the double click position on the map, so the values do not need to be explicitly known. However, sometimes the location of an item needs to be updated, but entering latitude and longitude directly on the form is not very friendly when the coordinates are not known in advance.

Now, latitude and longitude can be picked from the map when updating an item. Simply click on the marker icon displayed on the form.

It is now possible to update HOWL selected content directly from the application

Up until now, the data behind HOWL ‘spotlights’ has been pre-processed off-line and loaded onto static files. This means that any data changes must be performed by a HOWL developer and deployed to the web site like a new application release.

I am delighted to announce the beta availability of HOWL

For the past few months, I have been working in collaboration with the folks at Oregon Wild to develop HOWL (Highlighting Oregon’s WildLands). Many thanks to Erik Fernandez of Oregon Wild for supporting this project, providing a ton of data, feedback and direction!

It has been a long time since my last post. Here is an update.

Wow, I can’t believe that my last post was back in July. I have been pretty busy with some consulting work I am doing in the Internet of Things (IoT) field. Pretty exciting! But I am committed to continuing supporting and improving RikiTraki…

Latest RikiTraki 3D Visualization improvements

This is just a brief post summarizing a few improvements I implemented recently on the 3D visualization part.

A couple of changes to RikiTraki…

I would like to share some exciting changes I made to RikiTraki recently.

First, an invitation code is no longer required in order to create an account on RikiTraki so that you can upload your own GPS tracks and associated pictures right away. So essentially it means that we are on open beta now.

This is Part 3 of the “Welcome to RikiTraki” series

Happy New Year! This is my first post of 2016.

In Parts 1 and 2, I introduced RikiTraki, described the main page view, and menu bar items. In this part of the series, I will describe the track view.