Patent ID: 8538696

Claim:
A method of presenting an image and weather data comprising: associating three-dimensional location coordinate information with an image, wherein the three-dimensional location coordinate information comprises a longitude value, a latitude value, and an elevation value; sending a request from a client computing device executing a data plug-in for interrogating one or more servers for weather data comprising the three-dimensional location coordinate information, wherein the weather data comprises at least one of observed and derived data associated with recent weather conditions; receiving weather data for the three-dimensional location coordinate information, wherein the weather data is determined using the three-dimensional location coordinate information associated with the image to select at least one location for which weather data is stored from amongst a plurality of locations for which weather data is stored, wherein the plurality of locations are each identified by three-dimensional coordinates having a respective longitude value, a respective latitude value, and a respective elevation value; comparing the plurality of locations to the three-dimensional location coordinate information of the request to select the at least one location for which weather data is stored, wherein greater significance is attributed to differences in elevation value than to differences in longitude value and latitude value during the comparison; and presenting the image and the provided weather data.