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v2.141.0

Air quality /point now resolves from a 20m modelled surface inside Greater London

Inside the Greater London LAEI extent, the air-quality point endpoint now resolves NO2, PM10 and PM2.5 from a 20m modelled annual-mean surface instead of the 1km cell plus decay overlay.

Changed

  • Inside the Greater London LAEI extent, POST /v1/air-quality/point now resolves no2, pm10 and pm25 directly from the 20m modelled annual-mean surface (LAEI 2022) instead of the 1km background cell. The surface already encodes road and source gradients, so the property-decay overlay is not applied on top, avoiding double-counting. Compliance, score, band and DAQI are re-derived from these concentrations.
  • On a London point response, decay.model returns laei-20m and the response sources list includes LAEI 2022, so you can tell which tier produced the values.
  • Pollutants the surface does not model (o3 and so2) continue to use the 1km background, keeping a complete pollutant set.
  • Outside Greater London, behaviour is unchanged: the endpoint still returns the 1km background cell with the decay overlay applied. No request fields change; the LAEI tier is selected automatically by coordinate.

Affected endpoints