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Date Published
Author
Alistair Miller
Word count
760
Language
English
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None

Summary

Mapbox has introduced new capabilities for high-precision raster weather data, allowing organizations to offer more visually appealing and engaging weather maps, drive savings on time, resources, and costs, and provide greater control over their weather data. The Mapbox Tiling Service (MTS) now supports the processing and styling of raster weather data, enabling dynamic colorization, interactive visualizations, and localized color ramps based on user view area or zoom level. Raster array sources can be created, edited, and shared using Mapbox Studio, providing a graphical interface for applying pre-set color palettes, creating custom color gradients, and manually editing colors. The updated Tilequery API supports raster tilesets, allowing users to retrieve data values from specific locations within the raster tileset programmatically. Additionally, Mapbox is introducing particle animation for data that includes multiple attributes, such as magnitude and direction of wind, waves, and ocean currents.