Abstract: An outdoor, free standing area heater comprises a vertically extending housing defining an interior and a heat producing source for producing a flame that heats air and at least one glass tube directing at least a portion of the heated air upwardly inside the housing. An upper hood is located above the housing at a position for the heated air conducted by the at least one glass tube to impinge on the upper hood, the upper hood being shaped to redirect the heated air in a direction away from the housing and in a general downward direction from the upper hood. The glass tube is substantially surrounded by side panels that are provided with a plurality of cutouts in a wall defining each of said side panels, wherein the cutouts leave a percentage closure of the wall in the range from 1 to 65 percent.

Abstract: Methods and systems for presenting a temporal sequence of geographic location-specific data are disclosed. These include presenting a temporal sequence of geographic location-specific data in response to a single query. A query that includes data specifying a selected geographic location and a time interval is received. In response to the query, at least three temporally distinct times are selected to represent the time interval. At least one visual image data file is selected to represent the selected geographic location at each of the at least three temporally distinct times. At least one additional contextual data file is selected to represent the selected geographic location at each of the at least three temporally distinct times. The selected visual image data files and additional contextual data files are presented in temporal sequence to represent the progression of time at the selected geographic location over the time interval.