Get Involved

Vista Manifest, and the CFRender rendering engine used, to date have been authored by one individual - Harris Hudson. See the Contact Us page on how to reach out to Harris. This website is maintained as an Open Source website in order to encourage other technically minded software developers, GIS analysts, and scientists to possibly reconsider the way they might look at their NetCDF data. The intention here is to simply put scientific datasets into the hands of the every-day person. To date, this website is a bit of an eclectic collection of some random weather and climate renderings but is based on real datasets from publicly available resources. If you have a suggestion for a new live data map rendering, please see below.

Have a Map Suggestion?

If you have some NetCDF Open Datasets, in CF format, that require a basic grid rendering or a vector (wind) rendering, then please reach out with your suggestion and it may be considered for inclusion here. Both Grid and Vector rendering is available. To consider your dataset for possible inclusion on this website, ideally it should be;

1. A visualization for educational purposes
2. Open Data - that can be accessed without requiring any user authentication nor API key registration
3. Available in NetCDF version 3 format (currently CFRender only supports this version)
4. Available in CF (Climate Forecasting) convention
5. If the dataset is more than 1Mb in size, or your have multiple NetCDF files that make up your dataset, then ideally it will be available via a THREDDS TDS Subsetting Service - so it can be scalably sliced and diced.
6. Ideally your files will be served with CORS headers over https (to allow cross origin sharing of your data).

This Website Repo

https://github.com/harrishudson/VistaManifest

The CFRender Repo

This is the main rendering engine used in this website. If you are technically minded - feel free to suggest an improvement or raise an issue if you find a bug.

https://github.com/harrishudson/CFRender

Donate / Sponsor

Did you find a visualization on the website useful to you? Want to help keep this site up and running?

https://harrishudson.com/#sponsor