mapsgl
This skill should be used when working with the Xweather MapsGL JavaScript SDK for the web (@xweather/mapsgl) — setting up a MapsGL map controller for Mapbox GL, MapLibre GL, Google Maps, or Leaflet, and adding, removing, styling, filtering, masking, or animating MapsGL weather layers and custom data layers. Use it whenever a task mentions MapsGL, aerisweather.mapsgl, addWeatherLayer, weather map layers, or client-side WebGL weather rendering. Also use it for questions about how MapsGL usage or cost is measured — sessions, the 5-minute clock intervals, the 150x access multiplier, or how many accesses a MapsGL map consumes. Also covers Xweather's attribution requirement — the 'Powered by Vaisala Xweather' credit and logo rules that apply wherever Xweather data or imagery is displayed.
Install
With your agent
Install OMGSkills skill "vaisala-xweather/xweather-agent-skills:plugins/xweather/skills/mapsgl" into this agent's normal skills directory: call the OMGSkills MCP get_install_plan tool for your agent and run the script it returns (it installs only the pinned commit and verifies SKILL.md), and stop if MCP or the pin is unavailable. Do not overwrite or change existing skills without asking me.
Manual command
git clone https://github.com/vaisala-xweather/xweather-agent-skills /tmp/xweather-agent-skills && ln -s /tmp/xweather-agent-skills/plugins/xweather/skills/mapsgl ~/.claude/skills/mapsglFrom README
MapsGL JavaScript SDK The MapsGL JavaScript SDK (@xweather/mapsgl) renders weather and custom map data client-side in WebGL, layered on top of Mapbox GL, MapLibre GL, Google Maps, or Leaflet. It requires an active Xweather account with Weather API + Maps access (client id + secret). This skill is the web-based JavaScript SDK. For a native Swift app on iOS, iPadOS, Mac Catalyst, or visionOS, use the mapsgl-apple skill instead — a separate SDK with a Swift API (MapboxMapController, WeatherService.LayerCode), its own channels, and a smaller layer set. The concepts below transfer; none of the code does. MapsGL ships for Android as well. Always qualify the name as the MapsGL JavaScript SDK. Xweather ships an unrelated product simply called the JavaScript SDK ( ), so the bare term is ambiguous. Xweather's own naming for the family is MapsGL, MapsGL iOS, and MapsGL Android; "MapsGL JavaScript SDK" is the unambiguous way to name this one.
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