Tile API
Access Nearmap's Vertical and Panorama imagery via a Tile API using Google Maps Tile Coordinates also known as Slippy Tilenames.
Use the Tile API to retrieve:
Overview
Nearmap provides access to its Vertical and Panorama Imagery via a Tile API using Google Maps Tile Coordinates, also known as Slippy Tilenames. They map into a pyramid of 256x256-pixel map tiles at multiple zoom levels. An application typically downloads a collection of adjacent tiles to cover a given region
Only the Web Mercator projection is supported, as per the de-facto web mapping standard (EPSG:3857; also known as EPSG:3785 and EPSG:900913). Nearmap’s Web Map Service (WMS 2.0) is recommended for other projections.
There are two ways you can use this API to retrieve tiles:
- Retrieve tiles for a specified location
- Retrieve tiles of a specified survey for a specified location
You can use the Coverage API in conjunction with the Tile API to retrieve coverage (surveys):
- Retrieve Coverage for a Given Polygon
- Retrieve Coverage for a Given Point
- Retrieve Coverage for a Given Tile Coordinate
NOTE: Nearmap's Tile API has a rate limit, meaning that there is a restriction on the number of requests that can be made against an endpoint.
Should I be using this API?
This API is feature rich and will allow you to do a lot with Nearmap content. Use this API if you want:
- Control over tile upscaling
- The ability to:
- Hide low resolution satellite background imagery
- Request JPG or PNG tiles
- Request relative dates (for example, show imagery that is at least one year old)
- Richer metadata
- Explicit survey tile requests
Updated about 2 months ago