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FRANCISCO, Aug. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- 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 render, and
can be styled for dynamic colorization 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 weather will behave, providing end
users with specific and accurate insight to aid with
decision-making.
Raster Particle Animation
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. Particle animation helps to visualize how the
weather will behave when data comes in lengthy increments,
providing users with a more intuitive understanding of weather
patterns. It also enables particles to persist when zooming and
panning, giving users a more seamless experience within web and
mobile applications.
Streamlined Support for Raster Data
MTS offers
end-to-end processing, tiling, and hosting services for spatial
data making it an all-in-one solution. Companies that use Mapbox as
a single tech stack and pipeline for raster and vector data can now
use internal resources to focus on engineering features that
differentiate their product rather than building hard-to-maintain,
expensive and undifferentiated proprietary processing systems.
"Self-hosted data processing pipelines can be cumbersome and
full of failure points, often requiring significant time and
resources to develop, host, monitor and maintain. With raster
support for MTS, you get all the control you need without the
overhead of building and managing your own tooling," said
Anthony Goddard, Expedition Map
Maker at ZeroSixZero. "This has allowed us to save hosting costs
and free up time to spend on developing features for users rather
than troubleshooting pipelines."
"Mapbox partners with the most well-known weather providers to
offer easy access to accurate and timely weather information,
helping our customers keep the public safe and informed while
reducing costs and time in development," said Alistair Miller, product manager of Imagery,
Mapbox. "The expanded MTS support for raster data equips our
customers to deliver the most performant visualizations possible to
end users."
Fine-tuned Tileset Customization
MTS also
includes the ability to create tailored tileset 'recipes' that
improve ease of development for customers. The recipes configure a
set of rules that tell MTS how to process data into tiles,
providing fine control over tile generation decisions such as
simplification, zoom level extent, and attribute, time-step, or
band manipulation. With this level of flexibility, companies have a
greater degree of control over their raster data than what other
tiling solutions provide.
"Mapbox provides a solution where we will not have to depend on
maintaining our own Geoserver since the processing and hosting is
done with Mapbox," said Dr. Jay
Shafer, director of Utilities, Disaster Tech, Inc. "Instead
of having to cache our own raster tiles Mapbox does this for us
which allows us to scale to many customers."
Read more about Mapbox Tiling Service (MTS) and how Mapbox
enables you to process, style, and render raster data on this
page.
To learn more about Mapbox solutions for the weather industry,
in addition to processing raster data, see this
page: https://www.mapbox.com/weather.
For technical details, view the Raster MTS
documentation: https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-tiling-service/raster/
To start processing raster data, you first need a Mapbox
account. You can sign up
here: https://account.mapbox.com/auth/signin/
About Mapbox
Mapbox is the leading maps and location
platform powering a new generation of location-aware applications.
Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full
set of tools to power the navigation for people, packages, and
vehicles everywhere. More than 4 million registered developers and
40 percent of Fortune 500 companies have chosen Mapbox because of
the platform's flexibility, security, and privacy compliance.
Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to
create customized and immersive experiences that delight their
customers.
For more information, visit www.mapbox.com.
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