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Weather Service

The Smartmaps Weather API offers access to worldwide weather data and forecasts.

Key Features

Data Models

The API responses with several data models to structure its responses:

  • Address: Represents an address with properties such as country, district, ZIP code, city, street, and house number.
  • Coordinates: Represents geographic coordinates with latitude and longitude.
  • Feature: A GeoJSON Feature object with properties like bounding box, CRS, type, ID, geometry, and additional properties.
  • WeatherResponse: Represents the overall weather response, including copyright information, address, coordinates, current weather, hourly weather, hourly summary, and timezone.

Endpoints

The API offers several endpoints to meet diverse weather data needs:

  • Get Weather at a Point: Retrieve weather data for a specific geographic point using latitude and longitude.

Flexible Query Parameters

The API supports a wide range of query parameters, allowing for detailed and customized weather data retrieval:

  • Temporal Filters: Use DateTimeFrom and DateTimeUntil to specify the time range for weather data.
  • Detail Level: Adjust the Details parameter to control the level of detail in the weather data.

GeoJSON Responses

All API responses are delivered in GeoJSON format, providing a standardized and easily interpretable data structure. This includes:

  • Feature: Contains weather data for specific points or locations.
  • FeatureCollection: Aggregates multiple weather data features for broader queries like rectangles or polylines.

Explore the Smartmaps Weather API to enhance your applications with precise and reliable weather data. Whether you are developing weather-sensitive applications, conducting environmental analysis, or integrating with geographic information systems, our API offers the tools necessary for accurate and efficient weather data queries.