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River Flood Risk for Japan

This tileset reference document includes information to help you use the data in the River Flood Risk for Japan tileset.

Japan Weather Layers

This tileset is part of the Mapbox Japan Weather Layers. These tilesets provide weather and environmental data for Japan and have separate pricing from other Mapbox tilesets.

See the Japan Weather Layers guide for more details.

Overview

River Flood Risk for Japan is a Mapbox-provided vector tileset that includes river flood risk data for Japan..

Access this Tileset

Use this Tileset URL to add this tileset to your map style as a vector source:

mapbox://mapbox.weather-jp-river-flood

Access this tileset's TileJSON:

https://api.mapbox.com/v4/mapbox.weather-jp-river-flood.json?access_token=YOUR_MAPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN

Access tiles from this tileset via the Vector Tiles API using the following template:

https://api.mapbox.com/v4/mapbox.weather-jp-river-flood/{z}/{x}/{y}.{format}?access_token=YOUR_MAPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN

Query this tileset at a specific location using the Tilequery API:

https://api.mapbox.com/v4/mapbox.weather-jp-river-flood/tilequery/{longitude},{latitude}.json?access_token=YOUR_MAPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN

Data sources

The data supporting this tileset is sourced from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). JMA Source Data.

Layer reference

The River Flood Risk for Japan vector tileset contains the following layers:

river_flood

This layer shows rivers with flood risk in Japan.

markerpolylinepolygonbuffer: 2

TYPE integer

The river type, either 1 or 2.

FLOODRISK integer

The flood risk hazard level

ValueDescription
0No Risk
1Caution
2Warning
3Danger
4Disaster Imminent

FLOODFCST integer

The flood risk hazard level forecast

ValueDescription
2Caution
3Warning
4Danger
5Disaster Imminent
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