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VERTEXAPI

Overview

Weather models, observations and outdoor layers for CONUS, priced in credits.

Vertex API 1.0.0

Section titled “Vertex API 1.0.0”

Open-Meteo-compatible point forecasts (HRRR/RRFS 3 km, GFS, ECMWF) with soaring-specific derived fields, value-encoded weather tiles + TileJSON, radar/lightning/stations/soundings/gauges/fire/TFR observations, NWS text products, and static outdoor layers. Every response carries x-credits-cost; add dry_run=1 to price a request first. Free: 15000 credits/month (1000/day), commercial use allowed. Pay-as-you-go from $0.5 per 1,000 credits. See /v1/pricing.json.

Information

  • OpenAPI version: 3.1.0

Operations

Section titled “ Operations ”
GET
/v1/forecast
GET
/v1/profile/xsection
GET
/v1/profile/airgram
GET
/v1/layers
GET
/v1/layers/{model}/{var}/tilejson.json
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/v1/tiles/{model}/{run}/{var}/f{FF}/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
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/v1/radar/{frame}/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
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/v1/static/{layer}/{z}/{x}/{y}.{mvt|png}
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/v1/meta.json
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/v1/barbs/{model}/{run}/f{FF}/{level}.png
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/v1/isobars/{model}/{run}/f{FF}.geojson
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/v1/thunder/{model}/{run}/f{FF}.geojson
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/v1/precipbands/{model}/{run}/{var}/f{FF}.geojson
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/v1/radar/index.json
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/v1/stations/latest
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/v1/stations/history
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/v1/lightning/strikes.geojson
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/v1/soundings/latest
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/v1/soundings/stations/{wmo}
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/v1/gauges/latest.geojson
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/v1/gauges/{site}/history
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/v1/fire/{perimeters|incidents|hotspots}.geojson
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/v1/tfrs.geojson
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/v1/weather-alerts
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/v1/discussions/latest
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/v1/discussions/{cwa}/latest
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/v1/static/{layer}/metadata
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/v1/peaks/manifest.json
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/v1/usage
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/v1/pricing.json

Authentication

Section titled “ Authentication ”

bearer

Section titled “bearer”

Authorization: Bearer vtx_live_…

Security scheme type: http

apikey

Section titled “apikey”

For map-SDK tile templates

Security scheme type: apiKey

Query parameter name: apikey