Outdoor Intelligence
Outdoor Intelligence gives you direct access to Mountaya's geospatial engine: directions, reachability areas, travel-time matrices, surface analysis, and route suggestions, all through typed APIs with no map rendering involved.
Why Outdoor Intelligence?
Use it when you need geospatial computations in your application logic. Common patterns:
- Trip planners that draw routes between waypoints chosen by the user.
- Route finders that suggest loops or point-to-point routes for a target distance and elevation gain.
- Reachability filters that show which trailheads are within an hour of a given location.
- Surface and waytype analysis for an existing GeoJSON track to label segments as gravel, asphalt, path, and so on.
No map rendering is included: the API returns structured data that you display however you want.
Getting started
- Set up authentication: Create your API keys and generate a session token.
- Explore the API: Open the GraphQL playground to browse the schema and run queries interactively.
Session tokens always required
Session tokens are mandatory for Outdoor Intelligence, regardless of the require_session_token safety rule. Include your publishable key in the X-API-Key header and a session token in the X-Session-Token header. Your publishable key must have the data scope enabled.
Available resources
- Directions. Compute routes between waypoints. Returns distance, duration, GeoJSON geometry, and surface/waytype analysis for each route.
- Suggestions. Generate route candidates matching a target distance and optional elevation gain. Each candidate uses a different random seed, producing varied loop or point-to-point routes.
- Geometry analysis. Analyze the surface type and way type of an existing geometry. Returns segments along the route classified as asphalt, gravel, dirt, path, road, cycleway, and more.
- Isochrones. Compute reachability polygons from one or more locations. Returns areas reachable within a given time or distance range, useful for visualizing how far a user can hike, bike, or run.
- Matrix. Compute duration and distance grids between all source-destination pairs. Ideal for finding the closest trailhead, comparing access points, or ranking locations by travel time.