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Touch the Future of the Geo Web with Weather Underground

As I write this item there's a severe thunderstorm warning here in the NYC area. So, naturally, I pulled up the weather on my iPhone. In the process I discovered that Weather Underground has an amazing mobile radar site called the Wundermap that gives you a taste of what the web will look like soon everywhere - geo-sensing and touch interactive.

Simply hit this page in any geo-capable browser. I tested it in Firefox 3.5 on the desktop and mobile Safari on an iPhone. It should not only auto-detect your location, but also allow you to zoom in or out either via mutli-touch gestures (on an Macbook or iPhone) or simply by using your mouse wheel.

Amazing stuff considering this is not an app or Flash-based, but simply a web page. Sure Google Maps does some of this but I found the combo impressive.

     
Click here to download:
Touch_the_Future_of_the_Geo_We.zip (962 KB)

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