Map Base Tiles API
The base map underneath everything else you render - streets, buildings and terrain, in a choice of visual styles.
Where it's used
Use cases, value and how it works
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
Quick try
curl -X GET 'https://map-cdn.sovereignsolutions.tech/styles/3d/3d.json?api-key=$API_KEY'
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 |
Map style - 3D
Errors: non-2xx responses use the standard status codes listed on Errors.
Map style - Basic
Errors: non-2xx responses use the standard status codes listed on Errors.
Map style - Bright
Errors: non-2xx responses use the standard status codes listed on Errors.
Map style - Dark
Errors: non-2xx responses use the standard status codes listed on Errors.
Map style - Fiord
Errors: non-2xx responses use the standard status codes listed on Errors.
Map style - Liberty
Errors: non-2xx responses use the standard status codes listed on Errors.
Map style - Positron
Errors: non-2xx responses use the standard status codes listed on Errors.
Map style - Terrain
Errors: non-2xx responses use the standard status codes listed on Errors.
Map style - Toner
Errors: non-2xx responses use the standard status codes listed on Errors.
Notes
Available styles: basic, bright, dark, fiord, liberty, positron, terrain, toner, 3d.
The style URL carries the API key as a query parameter, e.g. https://map-cdn.sovereignsolutions.tech/styles/basic/basic.json?api-key=<apiKey>.
