Building rich and interactive web applications with CoverageJSON Jon Blower Maik Riechert Guy Griffiths Mridul Kumar Riley Williams 10.6084/m9.figshare.5254972.v1 https://esip.figshare.com/articles/presentation/Building_rich_and_interactive_web_applications_with_CoverageJSON/5254972 Web browsers are becoming increasingly capable as visualisation and analysis platforms<br>Lots of tools and libraries are built around images and “simple features”<br>GeoJSON, KML, OpenLayers, Leaflet ...<br>Formats and tools for scientific / meteorological data are not always web-friendly<br>Complex, binary, desktop-oriented<br>Large variety, usually community-specific<br><br>=> Lots of people building ad-hoc solutions for web applications<br><br>We want to bring scientific data within the reach of more Web and mobile app developers<br>Web-friendly formats (i.e. JSON)<br>More powerful and reusable visualisation/analysis tools<br>Support for semantic content<br> 2017-07-28 17:08:42 covjson coveragejson Web Technologies (excl. Web Search) Open Software Markup Languages Data Format