Map Base Tiles API

The base map underneath everything else you render - streets, buildings and terrain, in a choice of visual styles.

Overview & Solution

Every map needs something underneath the pins, routes and zones you draw - a base layer showing streets, terrain and buildings. Building and hosting that yourself is a project on its own; most teams just need it to be there, load fast, and look right for what they're building.

The Map Base Tiles API serves that base layer, in a choice of styles so the map fits the app it's in - a bright dashboard, a dark control room screen, a terrain view, or real satellite imagery.

Industry Use Cases

1. Operations Dashboards & Control Rooms

Dark style - a low-glare basemap that keeps vehicle markers, tracks and alerts readable on a screen viewed for hours at a time.

2. Customer & Field-Facing Apps

Light style - a bright, familiar basemap for consumer-facing screens like order tracking or a branch locator.

3. Land, Agriculture & Site Planning

Satellite imagery - real overhead imagery for verifying land use, crop cover or site layout, where street-map styling alone doesn't show what's actually on the ground.

4. Outdoor & Rural Operations

Terrain style - elevation and land contours visible for planning routes or coverage across hilly or rural areas.

API reference

Map Visualization · API key only

Endpoints

Method	Path	Purpose
`GET`	`/styles/3d/3d.json`	Map style - 3D
`GET`	`/styles/basic/basic.json`	Map style - Basic
`GET`	`/styles/bright/bright.json`	Map style - Bright
`GET`	`/styles/dark/dark.json`	Map style - Dark
`GET`	`/styles/fiord/fiord.json`	Map style - Fiord
`GET`	`/styles/liberty/liberty.json`	Map style - Liberty
`GET`	`/styles/positron/positron.json`	Map style - Positron
`GET`	`/styles/terrain/terrain.json`	Map style - Terrain
`GET`	`/styles/toner/toner.json`	Map style - Toner

All requests need only your API key, as the api-key query parameter - no bearer token:

?api-key=<apiKey>