Wilson Visuals Blog

Gauge readings in gmail and cell phones

Thu, 2 Feb 2006 21:42:16 -0700

There are a lot of ways the city pages can be useful. The most recent example though is that GoogleMail supports something they call "web clips". Bascially this lets you read river gauge levels in the same page you check your mail.

Help!

Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:38:36 -0700

So, it's not that big of an emergency. In the near future, I'll need some beta-testers for new features I'm creating related to wivi (WilsonVisuals.com). I'm not sure when stuff will be ready for testing, but I'll want some people to play around with stuff before it's released to the general public. Testing is really easy... you use the application a bit and tell me if (when) it breaks and what you like and don't like about it. If that means two minutes of your time... great. 10 minutes even better. To be a tester just email me at gauges "at" wilsonvisuals.com. I won't sell any emails or use them to spam, I will reply when I've got some stuff to test. Later and thanks.

Putting wilsonvisuals maps on your page

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 09:52:23 -0700

It's really simple to add maps to your homepage or your clubs home page or pretty much anywhere you can edit HTML. Anyone with a javascript aware browser that knows the command will be able to look at the map. If you want to see a map in action, check out the viking canoe club or bardstown boaters pages. Last post I included a map on a post about lost paddle. We'll see how I included the map in that article.

Can you see Lost Paddle from space?

Sun, 4 Dec 2005 17:41:23 -0700

Answer: definitely. Actually you can make out each drop. You can see Pillow and Insignificant as well. Check out this map of the confluence of the meadow with the Gauley river, and see if you can:

WilsonVisuals first Weblog

Fri, 25 Nov 2005 22:44:00 -0700

Hey, we just went live this week and, so far, we basically have next to no users. This blog is basically half of our strategy (the other half will wait for another day) to document the features and changes to WilsonVisuals. For now, I recommend people with broadband check out the maps page. It uses some fancy web development to combine google maps with AFWS and USGS gauges as well as weather forecasts from the national weather service. If you don't know your river geography well, it will change the way you look at the world!

If you've been to Wilson's Creek (NC) recently you might add a visual.