Changelog

Changelog

2023.04

June 7, 2023

  • Layers - new air quality layers. Layers include: air-quality-pm2p5, air-quality-pm10, air-quality-co, air-quality-no, air-quality-no2, air-quality-so2, air-quality-o3, air-quality-index, air-quality-index-categories
  • Layers - new maritime layers. Layer Include: maritime-sst, maritime-currents, maritime-wave-heights, maritime-wave-periods, maritime-wind-wave-heights, maritime-wind-wave-periods, maritime-swell-heights, maritime-swell-periods, maritime-swell-2-heights, maritime-swell-2-periods, maritime-swell-3-heights, maritime-swell-3-periods, maritime-surges, maritime-tides
  • minor bug fixes & improvements

2023.03

May 15, 2023

  • Layers - lightning-flash layers available to all Flex subscribers
  • Layers - lightning-all layers available to all Lightning Addon subscribers, displaying cloud-to-ground and intracloud lightning.
  • minor bug fixes & improvements

2023.02

May 4, 2023

  • Layers - radar-global - update for data source change
  • minor bug fixes & improvements

2023.01

March 27, 2023

  • Layers - snowdepth - updates for Canadian data source
  • minor bug fixes & improvements

2021.03

May 17, 2021

  • Layers - radar / radar-global - Canadian radar improvements
  • minor bug fixes & improvements

2021.02

March 22, 2021

  • Layers - New fradar-gfs providing global forecast radar based on the GFS model
  • Layers - Expanded satellite-geocolor coverage to be global
  • Layers - Update wave-heights layer to utilize the latest WaveWatch 3 integration with the GFS.
  • minor bug fixes & improvements

2021.01

March 17, 2021

  • Layers - convective-torn layer: sig torn hatch improperly fully covering 30 and 45% areas. Sig torn hatch area now transparent.
  • minor bug fixes & improvements

2020.10

October 27, 2020

  • general - rare service_unavailable_error error being output with a 200 success HTTP code incorrectly
  • minor bug fixes & improvements

2020.09

October 7, 2020

  • Layers - Lightning 15 minutes, large icons: lightning-strikes-icons-lg or lightning-strikes-15m-icons-lg
  • Layers - Lightning 5 minutes, large icons: lightning-strikes-5m-icons-lg
  • Layers - Country outlines only layer - countries-outlines or dark theme: countries-outlines-dk
  • minor bug fixes & improvements

2020.08

September 9, 2020

  • Layers - Rename radar-est to radar-global (radar-est will continue working)
  • minor bug fixes & improvements

2020.07

August 10, 2020

  • Layers - Road conditions improvements
  • minor bug fixes & improvements

2020.06

August 3, 2020

  • Layers - Convective/outlook improvements
  • minor bug fixes & improvements

2020.05

July 15, 2020

  • Layers - European alerts added to the alerts layer.
  • Layers - New alerts-surge layer for NWS tropical storm and hurricane-related storm surge alerts
  • Legends - Support for EU alerts within the alerts legend
  • Legends - Improvement for duplicate alert titles from different regions (US, CA, EU) in alerts legend
  • minor bug fixes & improvements

2020.04

June 4, 2020

  • Layers - Combined Standard radar with Global Radar (derived) - radar-est
  • Layers - Improvements for South Korea Radar
  • minor bug fixes & improvements

2020.03

April 6, 2020

  • Layers - Resolution and other improvements to the satellite-visible layer
  • minor bug fixes & improvements

2020.02

March 11, 2020

  • Layers - New Global wave-heights layer
  • Layers - new Global Sea Surface Temperatures layer named sst. Previous SST layer names will redirect to the new one
  • minor bug fixes & improvements

2020.01

February 17, 2020

  • Layers - Global Derived Radar (Satellite-Derived) - radar-est
  • Layers - Radar Layer expanded to include Japan
  • Layers - Global Forecast Snowfall smoothing improvements
  • Layers - Improved on the speed of lightning-strike layers
  • minor bug fixes & improvements

2019.08

September 10, 2019

  • improvements for forecast accumulated precipitation layers.
  • minor bug fixes & improvements

2019.07

June 12, 2019

  • Layers - Improvements to the High /Low-pressure icons in the surface analysis layers
  • Layers - forecast radar - improvements for the snow precip type coverage
  • minor bug fixes & improvements

2019.06

May 8, 2019

  • global snowfall forecast layers with kuchera and 10:1 ratio options
  • surface analysis layers, current and forecast
  • integrate GOES-17 water vapor data into water-vapor layer
  • utilize new band for satellite improvements
  • minor bug fixes & improvements

2019.05

April 10, 2019

  • Layers - Correct issue with water views not displaying smaller lakes at higher zooms
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvement

2019.04

March 27, 2019

  • Layers - Update feels-like layer to be global
  • Layers - implement improved data sources for global satellite on satellite layer
  • Layers - Swap GOES 15 for GOES 17 on satellite layer
  • Layers - Swap GOES 15 for GOES 17 on the satellite-infrared-color
  • Layers - Swap GOES 15 for GOES 17 on the satellite-visible
  • Layers - Swap GOES 15 for GOES 17 on the satellite-water-vapor
  • Layers - Minor tweaks to radar color ramp on the high end to help differentiate strong storms
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvement

2019.03

March 25, 2019

  • MapBuilder - Add new Aeris JS SDK examples
  • Wizard - Add new Aeris JS SDK examples
  • Layers - temperatures-rtma
  • Layers - dew-points-rtma
  • Layers - humidity-rtma
  • Layers - heat-index-rtma
  • Layers - wind-chill-rtma
  • Layers - feels-like-rtma
  • Layers - wind-speeds-rtma
  • Layers - wind-gust-rtma
  • Layers - Update temperatures layer to be global
  • Layers - Update dew-points layer to be global
  • Layers - Update humidity layer to be global
  • Layers - Update heat-index layer to be global
  • Layers - Update wind-chill layer to be global
  • Layers - Update wind-speeds layer to be global
  • Layers - Update wind-gust layer to be global
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvement

2019.02

March 13, 2019

  • Layers - Improvements for road conditions layer coloring.
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvement

2019.01

February 13, 2019

  • Layers - Expand coverage of the satellite-geocolor layer with the addition of the new GOES 17 / West
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvement

2018.14

November 12, 2018

  • Layers - Official release of new vector-based radar. Now the default radar layer
  • Layers - New tropical-cyclones-invests layer, displaying active tropical invests worldwide and their associated tracks.
  • Layers - New tropical-cyclones-invests-positions layer, displaying active tropical invests latest positions as a red circle.
  • Layers - New tropical-cyclones-invests-position-icons layer, displaying tropical invests latest positions as an icon (a capital L)
  • Layers- New tropical-cyclones-invests-names, displaying the name of the active tropical invests
  • Layers - New tropical-cyclones-invests-names-lg, displaying the name of the active tropical invests in a larger font size.
  • Layers - New tropical-cyclones-names-lg, extending the current tropical-cyclones-names layer by using a larger font size.
  • MapBuilder - New tropical layers added to the tropical category
  • Layers - Tropical layers use new clockwise icons for the southern hemisphere cyclones.
  • Layers - Improved styling for overlapping coastal warnings/watches.
  • Layers - timing improvements for the lightning-strike-density layer
  • LegendBuilder - Updated the new Snow Squall Warning color to the official #CC0084
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvement

2018.13

October 17, 2018

  • Layers - A Public beta test of new radar, vector-based provides the ability to zoom without pixelation or blurriness. Test the new radar layer using

2018.12

September 24, 2018

  • Layers - UK radar now included on radar layer.
  • Layers - German radar now included on the radar layer.
  • Layers - Improved South Korea radar implemented on the radar layer.
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvement

2018.11

September 17, 2018

  • Layers - New air-quality layer, providing global Air Quality Index information.
  • Layers - New fires (or fires-obs-points) layer, highlighting large wildfires within the US.
  • Layers - New fires-obs-icons layer, highlighting large wildfires within the US
  • MapBuilder - New fire layers added to the severe category
  • MapBuilder - New air-quality layer added to the observations category
  • LegendBuilder - New air quality legend added
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvement

2018.10

August 22, 2018

  • Layers - New satellite-geocolor layer. Colorized Goes 16 imagery, visible satellite during the day and infrared during the night
  • MapBuilder - New GeoColor Satellite layer added to satellite category.
  • LegendBuilder - New tropical cyclone legend with icon support
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvement

2018.09

August 15, 2018

  • Layers - new tropical-cyclones-names layer
  • Layers - styling updates to the tropical cyclone layers
  • MapBuilder - add the new tropical-cyclones-names layer to the tropical section
  • MapBuilder - Update regional coverage of tropical-cyclones-break-points layer (AL and EP)
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvement

2018.08

August 6, 2018

  • Layers - tropical cyclone layer tweaks and improvements
  • Layers - Remnant tropical cyclone displaying as a circle vs an L
  • Layers - GOES-West imagery not always being included properly on various satellite layers
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvement

2018.07

July 25, 2018

  • Layers - lightning-strikes-15m-icons, displaying the last 15 minutes of lightning strikes as lightning bolt icons
  • Layers - lightning-strikes-icons, alias of lightning-strikes-15m-icons
  • Layers - lightning-strikes-5m-icons, displaying the last 5 minutes of lightning strikes as lightning bolt icons
  • MapBuilder - New tropical section, with various tropical-cyclones layers.
  • MapBuilder - New lightning-strikes-icons layers added to the Severe section.
  • Layers- Various updates to the tropical-cyclone layers, including icon/font sizing
  • LegendBuilder - Updated tropical cyclone legend
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvement

2018.06

July 11, 2018

  • Layers - Upgrades tropical layer - Now alias to new tropical-cyclones layer
  • Layers - New tropical-cyclones layer, displaying global tropical systems
  • Layers - tropical-cyclones-positions, a layer that displays active tropical cyclone positions with colorized circles
  • Layers - tropical-cyclones-position-icons, a layer that displays active tropical cyclone positions with icons.
  • Layers - tropical-cyclones-track-lines, a layer that displays active tropical cyclone tracks.
  • Layers - tropical-cyclones-track-points, a layer that displays active tropical cyclone track points as colorized circles
  • Layers - tropical-cyclones-track-point-icons, a layer that displays active tropical cyclone track points as icons
  • Layers - tropical-cyclones-forecast-error-cones, a layer that displays active tropical cyclone error cones
  • Layers - tropical-cyclones-forecast-lines, a layer that displays active tropical cyclone forecast lines
  • Layers - tropical-cyclones-forecast-points, a layer that displays active tropical cyclone forecast points as colorized circles
  • Layers - tropical-cyclones-forecast-point-icons, a layer that displays active tropical cyclone forecast points as icons
  • Layers - tropical-cyclones-break-points, a layer that displays active coastline alerts as issued by the NHC.
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvement

2018.05

May 21, 2018

  • Layers - Precipitation type improvements for radar
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvements

2018.04

May 9, 2018

  • Layers - Promote the rapid update radar to be the primary production radar
  • Layers - Lightning strike layer global coverage improvements
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvements

2018.03

April 18, 2018

  • General - updated the logic for latitudes crossing over the anti-meridian
  • Layers - Updated rapid update radar (in beta) with improvements for precip type and smoothing
  • Layers - Improvements with NDFD layer timing
  • Layers - Improvements with combination of raster and text daily

2018.02

February 21, 2018

  • Layers - Utilize new RTMA dataset that updates every 15 minutes
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvements

2018.01

February 14, 2018

  • Layers - Forecast MSL Pressure (Global) - fpressure-msl
  • Layers - Forecast MSL Pressure Isobars (Global) - fpressure-msl-isobars
  • Layers - Forecast MSL Pressure (NAM model) - fpressure-msl-nam
  • Layers - Forecast MSL Pressure Isobars (NAM model) - fpressure-msl-isobars-nam
  • Layers - Forecast MSL Pressure (HRRR model) - fpressure-msl-hrrr
  • Layers - Forecast MSL Pressure Isobars (HRRR model) - fpressure-msl-isobars-hrrr
  • Layers - Forecast Snow Depth - fsnow-depth (global)
  • Layers - Forecast Snow Depth (NAM model) - fsnow-depth-nam
  • Layers - Forecast Snow Depth (HRRR model) - fsnow-depth-hrrr
  • Layers - Forecast Accum Precip (NDFD) - fqpf-accum-ndfd
  • Layers - Forecast Accum Snowfall (NDFD) - fsnow-accum-ndfd
  • Layers - Forecast Accum Ice Accretion (NDFD) - fice-accum-ndfd
  • Layers - Foreast 6hr Precip Intervals (NDFD) - fqpf-6h-ndfd
  • Layers - Forecast 6hr Snowfall Intervals (NDFD) - fsnow-6h-ndfd
  • Layers - Forecast 6hr Ice Accretion Intervals (NDFD) - fice-6h-ndfd
  • Layers - Current Wind Speeds Text in Metric (KM/H) - wind-speeds-text-metric
  • Layers - Current Wind Speeds Text in Knots - wind-speeds-text-knots
  • Layers - Implement GOES 16 for satellite IR B&W, IR Color, Water Vapor, Visible
  • Layers - Improved coverage and precipitation type to the beta radar-2m layer
  • Layers - Combine IR B&W satellite and satellite-global into a single satellite layer, named satellite
  • Layers - Add internal alias for satellite-global to redirect to satellite
  • MapBuilder - Add all new layers
  • MapBuilder - Adjust categories and orders of layers
  • LegendBuilder - Add Support for new layers
  • General - Speed and efficiency improvements
  • Layers - Missing Canadian Smog Warning on alerts layer
  • Layers - Missing Canadian Freezing Rain Warning on alerts layer
  • Layers - Missing Canadian Freezing Drizzle Advisory on alerts layer
  • Layers - Current wind directions missing dark theme
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvements

2017.14

September 25, 2017

  • Layers - Australian radar added to radar layer
  • Layers - Beta launch of enhanced radar - use layer radar-2m during beta
  • Layers - River Observations - rivers-observations
  • Layers - River Observations Flooding only - rivers-observations-flooding
  • Layers - River Observations Low water - rivers-observations-low-threshold
  • Layers - Accumulated Precip from AHPS - precip-1d, 7d, 14d, 30d, 60d, 90d, 180d, mtd, ytd, wytd
  • MapBuilder - River Observation option in observations category
  • MapBuilder - Add new accumulated precip options to precip layer in observations category
  • MapBuilder - 2 Minute Radar Beta added to Radar/Sat Category
  • LegendBuilder - Add two legend for accumulated precip
  • LegendBuilder - Add legends for Rivers Observations
  • LegendBuilder - Updated legend for forecast accumulated precipitation
  • Layers - Tropical layer valid time is 5 days vs 3 days.
  • Layers - Intermittent issues with Drought Monitor
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvements

2017.13

August 7, 2017

  • MapBuilder - Add Forecast jet Stream layers
  • MapBuilder - Updates to Raster Maps visualizer code samples
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvements

2017.12

July 31, 2017

  • Layers - Canadian Warnings, watches and advisories added to alerts layers.
  • Layers - Global Forecast Jet Stream (250mb) out 15 days - fjet-stream
  • Layers - Forecast Jet Stream (250mb) (NAM model) - fjet-stream-nam
  • Layers - Forecast Jet Stream (250mb) (HRRR model) - fjet-stream-hrrr
  • Layers - CPC 6-10 day temperature outlook - temperatures-outlook-6-10d-cpc NOTE: Use time offset +6days
  • Layers - CPC 6-10 day precipitation outlook - precip-outlook-6-10d-cpc NOTE: Use time offset +6days
  • Layers - CPC 8-14 day temperature outlook - temperatures-outlook-8-14d-cpc NOTE: Use time offset +8days
  • Layers - CPC 8-14 day precipitation outlook - precip-outlook-8-14d-cpc NOTE: Use time offset +8days
  • Static Maps - Efficiency and speed improvements
  • General - invalid latitude/longitude now send 400 error vs 500 internal error
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvements

2017.11

July 12, 2017

  • Layers -Global lightning-strikes provides last 15minutes of lightning strikes
  • Layers - Global lighting-strikes-5m provides the last 5 minutes of lightning strikes
  • MapBuilder - Add lightning-strikes options in Severe Category
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvement

2017.10

July 5, 2017

  • Layers - Tropical related alerts options - alerts-tropical
  • MapBuilder - Tropical related alerts option with the alerts layer
  • MapBuilder - Daily forecast highs text option in forecasts category
  • MapBuilder - Daily forecast lows text option in forecasts category
  • General - Speed and efficiency improvements
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvements

2017.09

June 21, 2017

  • Layers - Colorized IR Global Satellite - satellite-infrared-color
  • Layers - Colorized IR NAM Satellite - satellite-infrared-color-us
  • Layers - Water Vapor - satellite-water-vapor
  • Layers - Visible Satellite with transparent ground - satellite-visible-transparent
  • Layers - Global Daily Forecast Highs Text - ftemperatures-max-text
  • Layers - Global Daily Forecast Lows Text - ftemperatures-min-text
  • MapBuilder - New satellite layers/options in Radar/Satellite category
  • Layers - Improved B&W Global Satellite - satellite-global
  • Layers - Improved B&W NAM Satellite - satellite
  • Layers - Improved Visible Satellite - satellite-visible
  • Layers - Convective Hail significant area would plot under the 15% area
  • Layers - Styling for wind direction layers
  • Layers - Greatly improved speed on bounding box queries of base maps and overlays
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvements

2017.08

May 18, 2017

  • Layers - Convective-torn plotting incorrect color for 30% level
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvements

2017.07

May 10, 2017

  • Layers - Global Precip resolution/coverage improved
  • Layers - Global Accum Precip resolution/coverage improved
  • Layers - Global Precip now hourly intervals
  • Layers - Global Accum Precip now hourly intervals
  • General - Correction for some special characters in locations failing
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvements

2017.06

May 3, 2017

  • Layers - Improved radar live for all clients
  • General - Various bug fixes and improvements

2017.05

April 18, 2017

  • Layers - Addition of South Korea to radar (ptype-global-aeris) (beta)
  • General - Switch 401 errors to 403 errors for improved caching
  • General - Various speed improvements
  • Various bug fixes and improvements

2017.04

April 12, 2017

  • Layers - Canadian Precipitation radar (ptype-global-aeris) (beta)
  • Layers - Daily forecast highs (US)
  • Layers - Daily forecast lows (US)
  • Layers - Global forecast feels-like
  • Layers - Forecast feels like (NAM model)
  • Layers - Forecast feels like (HRRR model)
  • Layers - Forecast feels like (NDFD)
  • Layers - Forecast temperatures (NDFD)
  • Layers - Forecast dew points (NDFD)
  • Layers - Forecast relative humidity (NDFD)
  • Layers - Forecast wind speed (NDFD)
  • Layers - Forecast wind gusts (NDFD)
  • Layers - Forecast heat index (NDFD)
  • Layers - Forecast wind chill (NDFD)
  • MapBuilder - Update default layers
  • Layers - Cities large-dark theme font size
  • Various bug fixes and improvements

2017.03

March 22, 2017

  • Layers - new observed visibility layer (US only)
  • Map Builder - Aeris.js example output missing comma when using the opacity setting
  • Map Builder - Aeris Interactive Example output defaults to a 2-hour animation
  • Various bug fixes and improvements

2017.02

March 20, 2017

  • Layers - new global forecast dewpoint layer
  • Layers - new global forecast humidity layer
  • Layers - new global forecast wind speed layer
  • Layers - new global forecast wind gusts layer
  • Layers - new global forecast wind chill layer
  • Layers - new global forecast heat index layer
  • Layers - added dark theme option for observations wind direction vectors
  • Layers - All updated global forecast layers include hourly intervals out 5 days
  • Layers - All updated global forecast layers extended out 14 days.
  • Layers - improved global forecast temperatures layer
  • Layers - removal of small lakes from select base/overlay layers
  • Visualizer - Separates animation from base/overlays to lower map units
  • Visualizer - Support for user branding/watermark
  • Visualizer - Raster Maps Animator renamed to Raster Maps visualizer
  • Map Builder - category layout tweaks
  • Map Builder - Adjust animation to last hour to match dev account
  • Various bug fixes and improvements

2017.01

March 8, 2017

  • Layers - new forecast dewpoint layers
  • Layers - new forecast humidity layers
  • Layers - new forecast wind gusts layers
  • Layers - new forecast wind chill layers
  • Layers - new forecast heat index layers
  • Layers - new forecast visibility layers (US only)
  • Layers - improved forecast wind speed layers
  • Layers - remove small lakes from cities/admin layers
  • Map Builder - rename observed category to observations
  • Map Builder - rename models category to forecasts
  • Modifiers - opacity and other modifiers failed when only a single layer used in a request
  • AerisJS - Utilize HTTPS for OSM requests
  • Various bug fixes and improvements

2016.10

December 9, 2016

  • Layers - New us clip mask overlays for each base map type
  • Layers - Observed point data layers (temperatures, wind speeds, RH etc)
  • Layers - Alerts can be limited to display only watches or warnings.
  • Layers - Alerts can be displayed as filled polygons or outlines only
  • Legend Builder - New legend builder provides for simple creation of custom legends
  • Map Builder - New AerisJS output examples
  • Map Builder - Edit layer modifiers from layer edit view (dark/light, large font / standard)
  • Map Builder - Select Alert categories, and display modifiers from layer edit view
  • Map Builder - Select Storm Report categories from layer edit view
  • Map Builder - Select Storm Cell groups from layer edit view
  • Layers - Rename “surface” category to “observed”
  • Improved stability and speed across platform
  • Various bug fixes and improvements

2016.09

August 29, 2016

  • Layers - Canada radar in beta. Access via layer 'radar-ca'. If want to test combined with US radar, use 'radar-ca,radar-us'. After beta, both will be combined in the “radar” option.
  • Layers - new fqpf-gfs layer for global accumulated precip based on GFS
  • Map Builder - Now provides sample code for animated static images
  • Map Builder - Now provides sample code for animation using tiles with AerisJS
  • AnimatorJS - Bounding box support added to Static image animator
  • Layers - Improved resolution, quality and time to availability of the GFS forecast model layers
  • Requests - When using offsets (current.png), redirects to URL containing RUNTIME_VALIDTIME
  • Map Builder - Models section simplified. Add layer type, then select edit, then model type
  • Layers - State layer now display state outlines on all zoom levels
  • Layers - Remove interstates from states layer.
  • Layers - US drought monitor improved update frequency
  • Layers - Various other bug fixes and improvements

2016.08

July 21, 2016

  • Layers - observed wind direction arrows from observation stations
  • Layers - observed wind gusts from observation stations, light and dark versions
  • Layers - heat related advisories group. Available all, watches only, warnings only filled or outlines
  • Layers - frost/freeze related advisories group. Available all, watches only, warnings only filled or outlines
  • Layers - US drought monitor layer
  • Image Format - WebP image format support via wepb extension
  • Image Format - 70% JPG support via jpg70 extension
  • Layers - Improved resolution, quality and time to availability of the HRRR forecast models layers
  • Layers - Improved resolution, quality and time to availability of the NAM4k forecast model layers
  • Image Format - jpg# may be used in place of jpeg# for image quality
  • Layers - Observed heat index values only display if >= 80F
  • Layers - Observed wind chill values only display if <= 50
  • Bounding Box - Improved implementation of bounding box queries
  • Layers - Observations point data with missing data no longer plot “0”
  • Requests - Image requests with no size or invalid tiles (negative numbers) will now properly return 400 level errors instead of 500.
  • Various other bug fixes and improvements

2016.07

June 28, 2016

  • Layers - New us clip mask overlays for each base map type
  • Layers - Observed point data layers (temperatures, wind speeds, humidity, etc)
  • Layers - Alerts can be set to display only watches or warnings.
  • Layers - Alerts can be displayed as filled polygons or outlines only
  • Legend Builder - New legend builder provides for simple creation of custom legends
  • Map Builder - New AerisJS output examples
  • Map Builder - Edit layer modifiers from layer edit view (dark/light, large font / standard)
  • Map Builder - Select Alert categories, and display modifiers from layer edit view
  • Map Builder - Select Storm Report categories from layer edit view
  • Map Builder - Select Storm Cell groups from layer edit view
  • Layers - Rename “surface” category to “observed”
  • Layers - Can now toggle labels for states overlay
  • Improved stability and speed across platform
  • Various other bug fixes and improvements

2016.06

May 11, 2016

  • Documentation - New Examples Section
  • Improved @2x high PPI support
  • Improved legacy Aeris Overlay URL support
  • Convective outlooks not always updating properly
  • Fire Weather Outlooks not alwats updating properly
  • various bug fixes and improvements

2016.05

April 1, 2016

  • Layers - Global estimated snow depth
  • AnimatorJS - Autoplay Option
  • AnimatorJS - Now auto includes CSS if not already included via
  • Documentation - Updated examples on Raster Maps docs home page
  • Documentation - Updates Tile usage with examples.
  • Map Builder - Map center field now allows spaces when entering a city name.
  • various bug fixes and improvements

2016.04

March 23, 2016

  • Map Builder - Blend selection when editing layer
  • Layers - HRRR Temperatures
  • Layers - HRRR Winds
  • Layers - HRRR Future Radar
  • Layers - Stormcells (US only) and storm cell groups
  • Layers - Storm reports (US only) and storm report groups
  • Layers - Convective Outlooks (US only) and groups
  • Layers - Fire Weather Outlooks (US only) and groups
  • Layers - Large versions of admin, cities, counties, states overlays
  • Documentation - Blend layer modifier documentation.
  • AnimatorJS - New open source javascript for animating Raster Maps static maps.
  • Documentation - Docs & example usage of AerisMaps AnimatorJS
  • Map Builder - Map center field not updating when panning map
  • various bug fixes and improvements

2016.03

March 16, 2016

  • Map Builder - Opacity Support
  • Map Builder - Layer Updates
  • Layers - various layer updates
  • Documentation - Opacity and Blur Docs
  • various bug fixes and improvements

2016.02

March 1, 2016

  • Initial Non Beta Release
  • Map Builder - Initial Release
  • Documentation
  • Layers - various layer updates
  • various bug fixes and improvements

2016.01

February 1, 2016

Initial Public Beta