Hardware-accelerated geospatial data plotting in the browser
npm install autumnplot-glautumnplot-gl provides a solution to this problem by making hardware-accelerated data plotting in the browser easy. This was designed with meteorological data in mind, but anyone wanting to contour geospatial data on a map can use autumnplot-gl.
Check out the tutorial for installation and usage information.
To work on autumnplot-gl itself, it takes a few steps to set up
1. Install node.js if you don't have it already
2. Install emscripten and source the relevant SDK environment for your shell
3. Clone the autumnplot-gl git repo (git clone https://github.com/tsupinie/autumnplot-gl ; cd autumnplot-gl)
4. Install the dependencies (npm install)
5. Build the WASM module (cd src/cpp ; make js ; cd -)
6. Start the dev server (npm run start)