Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Announcing WhirlyGlobe-Maply Imagery Pro

Today I'm delighted to announce the first option on top of the WhirlyGlobe-Maply toolkit: Imagery Pro.

The red's moving away so that's good.

Up to now everything has gone into the free toolkit or client apps.  This marks the first time we're keeping something to ourselves and, yes, charging for it.

Who's This For?


We love all our users equally.  Okay, maybe we love the ones who pay support a little bit more.  But you're all cool.  Honest.

We've attracted a lot of weather and aviation users.  It makes sense.  They have pretty serious data display needs and only a passing interest in street maps.

Imagery Pro is for them.  We're taking what we've learned and pushing way beyond.

What's In It?


It's all in the marketing, but the basics are like so:

  • Efficient data transport
  • Fancy shaders
  • Getting rid of the !#*$& seams
  • Easier particles
I do love my animated gifs

All good stuff if you do weather and/or aviation.

So what about WhirlyGlobe-Maply?


That's right.  My five year plan to give away massive amounts of geospatial code is finally coming to fruition!

But no, the base toolkit is all good.  Imagery Pro is about expansion into a couple of markets that want much more right now and they're willing to pay for it.

We're continuing to expand WhirlyGlobe-Maply with iOS (2.5) and Android releases in the pipeline.  That's not going to change.

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