The Hurricane Patricia Painting Map

The Mapbox GL API is able to charge video files equally a layer on a map. This way that you lot tin add together drone or satellite captured moving images conduct to your maps. The results can hold back pretty amazing.

If you lot don't ain your ain satellite or drone you lot tin nonetheless purpose this video overlaid on a map feature. One selection is to utilisation an animated video from other data. This is what Mapbox has done amongst information from NOAA’s’s Global Forecast System. They convey created a video from NOAA's predictive GFS-model of Hurricane Patricia air current gusts, from Oct 19th to Oct 26th, too overlaid it on meridian of a Mapbox map of North too Central America too the Central Pacific.

You tin sentiment the map on the Mapbox Blog. If you lot don't believe that the pic file is genuinely a layer on the map, therefore rotate (right-click too drag), pan too zoom the map  and unwrap how the video rotates, zooms too pans amongst the map.