by Daphne Thompson, on Mar 1, 2012 1:01:24 AM
CHICAGO, IL and NORMAN, OK – March 1, 2012 - AgriCharts, the agricultural division of Barchart.com, Inc., which provides market data, agribusiness website hosting and technology solutions to the agricultural industry, announces a new relationship with Weather Decisions Technologies (WDT), a global leader in state-of-the-art weather services, to provide WDT's iMap, a dynamic and interactive weather mapping solution, to clients of AgriCharts. The new interactive weather maps are available to clients using AgriCharts' website hosting service and content solutions. The iMap solution utilizes the Google Maps API and provides users with the ability to launch the weather map into full screen mode, as well as view weather from a global level all the way down to a farm level, including local high resolution.
- Zoom in and out, even to the farm level (from World to Street Level views)
- Integrated with Google Maps for Terrain, Satellite, and Road Map views
- ClickCast – click anywhere and receive current conditions and forecast
- Launch into Full Screen Mode with a single click
- Radar and satellite overlays (including Local High Resolution)
- Current conditions overlay
- Rainfall overlays
- Flood index overlay
- Winter weather overlays
- Severe weather overlays
- Global weather (current conditions and forecasts)
- Search with your mouse or by address, zip code or city
- Save your exact location by clicking anywhere on the map
- Add custom markers/pins
- Adjust transparency levels
- Custom default view (by location and type of overlays)
- Custom map sizes
