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HERE Tiles API

Endpoints to request tiles

Documentation GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 2

Each operation below carries the questions people ask an LLM about it and the instructions they give an agent to run it. Generated by API Evangelist overlay

GET /{resource}/{projection}/{zoom}/{column}/{row}/{format} Get a rendered raster map tile · Retrieve the rendered map tile in requested format #

Ask an LLM

“How do I fetch a rendered map tile image for a given zoom level, column and row?”

“Can I get map tiles in a different style or language?”

Tell an agent

Get the {format} {resource} tile at zoom {zoom}, column {column}, row {row} in {projection}.

Fetch map tile {zoom}/{column}/{row} of {resource} as {format} in {projection} with labels in {lang}.

GET /traffictiles/{layer}/{projection}/{z}/{x}/{y}/{format} Get a traffic vector tile · Retrieves the protocol buffer encoded binary tile #

Ask an LLM

“How do I get traffic flow and incidents as protobuf vector tiles?”

“Can I filter traffic vector tiles to certain incident types?”

Tell an agent

Get the traffic vector tile for layer {layer} at {z}/{x}/{y} as {format} in {projection}.

Fetch traffic tile {z}/{x}/{y} of layer {layer} in {projection} as {format} showing incident types {incidentType}.

Documentation

https://docs.here.com/identity-and-access-management/docs

https://docs.here.com/identity-and-access-management/reference

https://docs.here.com/data-api/docs

https://docs.here.com/data-api/reference

https://docs.here.com/usage/docs

https://docs.here.com/usage/reference

https://docs.here.com/destination-weather/docs

https://docs.here.com/destination-weather/reference

https://docs.here.com/ev-products/docs

https://docs.here.com/ev-products/reference

https://docs.here.com/fuel-prices/docs

https://docs.here.com/fuel-prices/reference

https://docs.here.com/geocoding-and-search/docs

https://docs.here.com/geocoding-and-search/reference

https://docs.here.com/routing/docs

https://docs.here.com/routing/reference

https://docs.here.com/positioning/docs

https://docs.here.com/positioning/reference

https://docs.here.com/indoor-map/docs

https://docs.here.com/indoor-map/reference

https://docs.here.com/transit/docs

https://docs.here.com/transit/reference

https://docs.here.com/map-attributes/docs

https://docs.here.com/map-attributes/reference

https://docs.here.com/map-rendering/docs

https://docs.here.com/map-rendering/reference

https://docs.here.com/workspace/docs

https://docs.here.com/workspace/reference

https://docs.here.com/tour-planning/docs

https://docs.here.com/tour-planning/reference

https://docs.here.com/tracking/docs

https://docs.here.com/tracking/reference

https://docs.here.com/traffic-api/docs

https://docs.here.com/traffic-api/reference

https://docs.here.com/wego-pro/docs

https://docs.here.com/wego-pro/reference

Specifications

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Here Tiles API
  license:
    name: HERE Documentation License
    url: https://legal.here.com/en-gb/terms/documentation-license
  x-refined-note:
  - x-document-meta-data differs across the merged source definitions and was not carried
  version: '1.0'
  description: 'Operations tagged Tiles across 2 of this provider''s published API definitions: here-raster-tile-v3-openapi.yml, here-traffic-vector-tile-v2-openapi.yml. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- url: https://maps.hereapi.com/v3
  description: Production
- url: https://traffic.vector.hereapi.com/v2
  description: Production
tags:


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