Mapbox launches data support for advanced maps and weather

Mapbox, a global leader in location technology, introduced new capabilities for its Mapbox Tiling Service (MTS) to efficiently process, style, and serve raster data from weather visualizations to custom satellite and aerial imagery.

The numerical information in NetCDF and GRIB raster data now persists from processing to rendering and can be styled for dynamic colourization creating visually stunning, interactive, and engaging weather maps. Commercial and national government agencies and other media and trade organizations that work with weather data can now use these new methods of animating raster particles to predict how the weather will behave, providing end users with specific and accurate insight to aid with decision-making.

The new MTS capabilities support adding data-driven particle animations to digital maps, a visualization technique that is ideal for data that includes multiple attributes such as magnitude and direction of wind, waves, or ocean currents.

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