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🛠️API · Cloud Weather Services · Map Tiles · GIS · Icons · 85+ Languages

Developer Tools

A suite of tools designed to support and enhance the implementation of CustomWeather's products.

⚡ Core API

CustomWeather API

API available in XML or JSON
Clients can request data via HTTPS for secure data encryption
A proven forecast model with a high degree of accuracy
Hyperlocal weather data for over 80,000 locations
Ability to refine forecasts down to 100 meter resolution worldwide
Engaging satellite, radar and future radar animations accessed via maptile server
Visually engaging maps and graphics
High degree of scalability
Geolookup
Over 85 different languages
☁️ Cloud Services

Cloud Weather Services™

Easy access via API, available in both XML and JSON
Enables point access in real-time via web service to large gridded data sets, without requiring the download of complete government model data sets
Ability to create real-time comparison between models, and create plugins for value-add variables based on raw data from the models
Value-add variables include a hail index and even wind direction in degrees, which is normally reported as just U and V vectors in government models
Easy access to many obscure model variables which are critical to specific industries. Examples are short-wave radiation for the solar industry, and soil moisture at various depths for agriculture
📍 Locations

Locations

All forecast locations geocoded to provide:

latitude
longitude
time zone
state, province, and country
📡 Data Feeds

Data Feeds

Data feeds available:

CSV
XML
JSON
Delivery via HTTPS, Amazon S3, or SFTP/FTP
Can import geospatial data and overlay on maps
🔍 Searching

Searching

Easy and accurate searching:

US zip code
Regional mapping databases
Postal codes available for Canada, UK and many other countries.
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Languages
Weather data is available in over 80 languages including:
EnglishFrenchSpanishGermanDutchItalianPortugueseChineseJapanese+ 71 more languages
🧩 Map Tiles

Map Tile Server

On-demand, real-time weather map tiles
Meteorological layers derived from dozens of weather models
Utilizes quadkey structure compatible with map tile systems including Microsoft BING or Google Maps
Real-time information such as radar, satellite, estimated temperatures, and weather warnings
Tropical storm tracking
🗺️ Open GIS

Open GIS-Based Map Server

Map layers in real-time
Delivered via http interface
Set your size and area
Worldwide coverage
Various formats and projections
Use our base map or your own
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Custom Web Templates

A web template can be designed around virtually any layout specified by a client.

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Sample Code Available

Sample code can be supplied using XML query.

Icon Library

Icons

Multiple icon sets and styles suitable for print, web and wireless display.

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Icon Set 1 (Realistic Style)
Large and Small
The examples shown are part of a much larger set of icons
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Icon Set 2 (Vector Style)
SVG
The examples shown are part of a much larger set of icons
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Icon Set 3 (Button Style)
Large and Small
The examples shown are part of a much larger set of icons
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Icon Set 4 (Animated)
Animated
The examples shown are part of a much larger set of icons
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Icon Set 5 (MyForecast)
Large and Small
The examples shown are part of a much larger set of icons
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Icon Set 6
Large and Small
The examples shown are part of a much larger set of icons
Need a Custom Solution?

From API and Cloud Weather Services to Map Tiles, Open GIS, custom templates, and 6 icon sets — everything you need to build world-class weather experiences.

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