A method for rendering a scalable mixed aspect weather view comprising a near range portion and a mid-to-long range portion, the method comprising: receiving weather related data, wherein the weather related data is radar data; defining a near range portion of a rendering area corresponding to an area within a threshold distance; defining a mid-to-long range portion of the rendering area corresponding to an area beyond the threshold distance; identifying weather related data associated with a distance within the threshold distance; rendering the weather related data within the threshold distance in the near range portion at a first scale; identifying weather related data associated with a distance beyond the threshold distance; compressing a distance from a center point for each the weather related data beyond the threshold distance; rendering the distance compressed weather related data beyond the threshold distance in the mid-to-long range portion, wherein the mid-to-long range weather portion is rendered with increasing distance compression as the near range weather portion is scaled up and the mid-to-long range weather portion is rendered with decreasing distance compression as the near range portion is scaled down; receiving an instruction to change the first scale to a second scale, wherein when the instruction is received a new compression metric is identified to retain the full range of weather data by further compressing distances in the mid-to-long range portion; rendering the near range portion at the second scale; and re-compressing the distance from the center point for each of the weather related data beyond the threshold distance based on the second scale; and re-rendering the distance compressed weather related data beyond the threshold distance in the mid-to-long range portion according to the new compression metric, wherein the near range portion and mid-to-long range portion are rendered to preserve a radial orientation for each weather related datum. receiving weather related data, wherein the weather related data is radar data; defining a near range portion of a rendering area corresponding to an area within a threshold distance; defining a mid-to-long range portion of the rendering area corresponding to an area beyond the threshold distance; identifying weather related data associated with a distance within the threshold distance; rendering the weather related data within the threshold distance in the near range portion at a first scale; identifying weather related data associated with a distance beyond the threshold distance; compressing a distance from a center point for each the weather related data beyond the threshold distance; rendering the distance compressed weather related data beyond the threshold distance in the mid-to-long range portion, wherein the mid-to-long range weather portion is rendered with increasing distance compression as the near range weather portion is scaled up and the mid-to-long range weather portion is rendered with decreasing distance compression as the near range portion is scaled down; receiving an instruction to change the first scale to a second scale, wherein when the instruction is received a new compression metric is identified to retain the full range of weather data by further compressing distances in the mid-to-long range portion; rendering the near range portion at the second scale; and re-compressing the distance from the center point for each of the weather related data beyond the threshold distance based on the second scale; and re-rendering the distance compressed weather related data beyond the threshold distance in the mid-to-long range portion according to the new compression metric, wherein the near range portion and mid-to-long range portion are rendered to preserve a radial orientation for each weather related datum. <EOS>