Any Data Product with a spatial grid that your account can read can be added to QGIS, ArcGIS and other GIS software, or to a web map, as a layer. The software draws the product from inMotion as you pan and zoom, so there is nothing to download.

• You need an API key for the account. Create one under Settings → API Keys in Studio.
• The key shows only its own account's products. A product in another account behaves as if it does not exist.
• GIS software cannot send headers, so the key is given as the apikey query parameter on every address.
• Address of the map server: your inMotion administrator can tell you this. It is shown as https://maps.example.com below.

Use WMS to draw a product at any scale and as it changes with time, or WMTS for fast tiled maps.

1. Open Layer → Add Layer → Add WMS/WMTS Layer and choose New.
2. Give the connection a name, and set the URL to the capabilities address (below), with your key on the end.
3. Choose Connect, select the layers you want and choose Add.

The capabilities addresses are:

• WMS: https://maps.example.com/?SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&apikey=YOUR_KEY
• WMTS: https://maps.example.com/wmts/1.0.0/WMTSCapabilities.xml?apikey=YOUR_KEY

The same addresses work in ArcGIS, Leaflet, OpenLayers and any other client that reads OGC capabilities.

Each mapped variable of a product is a layer, named after the product and the variable: the product's name in lower case, with a dash for anything that is not a letter or digit, then a colon and the variable. A product called Daily rainfall with a variable rainfall becomes daily-rainfall:rainfall.

The product's identifier in place of its name is still accepted, so addresses made earlier keep working. Products that are meshes, rather than grids, are not served yet.

A product with a time coordinate has a time dimension, and one with levels such as depth has an elevation dimension.

• In QGIS, turn on temporal control for the layer to animate it through time.
• In a plain request, add TIME=2024-07-23T14:00:00Z or ELEVATION=-10.
• With no TIME, the latest time is drawn.

The STYLES parameter names a colour ramp, such as viridis, spectrum, bathymetry or topography. The range comes from the product's own display settings in Data Products where it has them, otherwise from its standard data type, otherwise from the data. GetLegendGraphic returns a colour bar with the range and units, and GetFeatureInfo returns the value at a point you click, as text or JSON.

• Maps are at most 1024 × 1024 pixels; the software asks for more tiles instead.
• Coordinate systems are Web Mercator (EPSG:3857), EPSG:4326 and CRS:84.
• Tiles follow the standard GoogleMapsCompatible grid, zoom levels 0 to 19.
• The copyright and licence of each product are carried in the capabilities. Keep them with any map you publish.