InstaMaps

InstaMaps Maps API

The Maps API from InstaMaps — 4 operation(s) for maps.

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Operations 4

POST /v1/render_map A hosted, layered map to keep or share: pins, lines or areas, colours by field… #
POST /v1/update_map Change a kept map in place: add or remove layers, move or add pins, recolour… #
POST /v1/get_map Look at a kept map from an earlier conversation: its layers, pin ids and fields. #
POST /v1/delete_map Delete the person's own maps for good, made here or in the InstaMaps Google… #

Specifications

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https://artifacts.apis.io/get-instamaps-com/openapi/get-instamaps-com-maps-api-openapi.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

get-instamaps-com-maps-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: InstaMaps Maps API
  version: 0.6.0
  description: 'Location data for lists, as one REST endpoint per job: geocode with a confidence per row, straight-line and road distances,

    multi-driver route plans, drive-time areas, official facts (census tract, HUBZone, flood zones), flood, crime and natural-hazard

    risk, live warnings, places nearby, plain-English questions over a table, and hosted maps. Strongest in the US and Great Britain,

    on our own address index, roads and official data. The same tools as the InstaMaps MCP server, as plain HTTP.


    **Auth.** Authorization: Bearer (or X-API-Key). Keys are free: sign in with Google at /developers/portal.


    **Free.** 2,500 lookups a day per account, every endpoint, reset at midnight UTC. No card.


    **What counts as a lookup.**

    - One lookup per row a call carries: an address placed, a journey measured, a stop routed, a place checked.

    - A question to ask_table is 10 lookups, however long the table.

    - A drive-time area is 10 lookups a band, plus one per place checked against it.

    - Maps, live hazards and postcode-radius lists are one lookup a call. Checking a background job (get_job) is free.

    - Rows sent by reference (a Google Sheet, a Drive file or an earlier run) are counted from the answer.


    **Keep what you get.** No 30-day cache rule: store the results in your own database for as long as you like. Every answer names its sources and their dates.


    **Every answer:**

    - Nothing is dropped: every row sent comes back, in order, under your own id; rows that cannot be placed or answered say why. An answer that would lose rows fails loudly instead.

    - Every row carries confidence {level: high | medium | low, score, basis}; basis is a stable code (rooftop, postcode_centre, not_placed…) and the answer''s confidence object says what each basis present means and what to do about it.

    - Every row carries record_key, the same place ID from every tool, so answers from different tools join on it.

    - Every answer ends with a run block: when, how many rows, sources with their dates, the confidence counts, calls used and left today, and a run_id that any tool can take as source {run} and render_map as from_run.

    - Lists by reference: pass a Google Sheet, a Drive file or a run_id instead of typing rows. Every tool but one only reads; write_to_sheet puts an answer into the sheet as new dated columns or a new tab, never overwriting.

    - No vendor or model names in answers; every source is named with its date.


    Docs: https://get-instamaps.com/developers'
  contact:
    name: InstaMaps
    email: hello@get-instamaps.com
    url: https://get-instamaps.com/developers
  termsOfService: https://get-instamaps.com/terms
servers:
- url: https://get-instamaps.com
  description: InstaMaps
security:
- apiKey: []
tags:


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# Full source: https://artifacts.apis.io/get-instamaps-com/openapi/get-instamaps-com-maps-api-openapi.yml