Additional Data Tilesets¶

Sometimes your maps need a bit of extra data to push them over the line from great to perfect. We offer the following tilesets to all customers at no extra charge (the usage is not billed or otherwise tracked against your account quota), provided that they are used with map tiles or other billable data sets/APIs from Stadia Maps. All you need is an active account to access them.

Global Landcover Tiles¶

Based on the ESA's excellent WorldCover project, our Global Landcover tileset helps you add color to the lower zoom levels (focused on zooms 0-6) using landcover derived from Sentinel satellite imagery. The layer is intended to smoothly transition to our landcover layer in our standard vector tiles.

This tileset is available from zoom 0 to zoom 6.

Tile Schema¶

Layer global_landcover¶

• Feature Type: Polygon
• Attributes:
  • class: type of landcover; to the extent possible, these match values of the landcover layer from OpenMapTiles
    • wood
    • grass
    • farmland
    • urban - built-up areas, typically cities
    • ice
    • bare - bare rock or desert
    • wetland
    • lichen - typically found in tundra regions, moss or lichen covered regions

URL¶

https://tiles.stadiamaps.com/data/global_landcover_v1/{z}/{x}/{y}.pbf

Attribution¶

The WorldCover project is CC-BY 4.0 licensed, so please include the following attribution when using the data:

© ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium

Global Elevation Tiles (Terrarium format)¶

Our elevation tiles use the Terrarium format, Web Mercator-projection, 256x256 PNG tiles. These are suitable for use with the hillshading and 3D elevation functionality in MapLibre renderers. They will also work with any other renderer that supports Terrarium format tiles, such as Tangram.

This tileset is available from zoom 0 to zoom 12.

URL¶

https://tiles.stadiamaps.com/data/terrarium/{z}/{x}/{y}.png

Hillshading in MapLibre Styles¶

To add hillshading to your MapLibre style, you will need to add a source and a layer to your style like so:

"sources": {
    ...,
    "terrain": {
        "type": "raster-dem",
        "tiles": ["https://tiles.stadiamaps.com/data/terrarium/{z}/{x}/{y}.png"],
        "maxzoom": 12,
        "tileSize": 256,
        "encoding": "terrarium"
    }
},
"layers": {
    ...,
    {
        "id": "hillshade",
        "type": "hillshade",
        "source": "terrain"
    },
    ...
}

To learn how to customize the hillshading layer's appearance further, refer to the MapLibre Style Spec.

Required Attributions¶

If you use this data in a map, please include the following attribution according to the guide found here: https://github.com/tilezen/joerd/blob/master/docs/attribution.md.

As of 2022-09-01, this means the following attributions should "appear in a place that is reasonable to the medium or means you are utilizing":

* ArcticDEM terrain data DEM(s) were created from DigitalGlobe, Inc., imagery and
  funded under National Science Foundation awards 1043681, 1559691, and 1542736;
* Australia terrain data © Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2017;
* Austria terrain data © offene Daten Österreichs – Digitales Geländemodell (DGM)
  Österreich;
* Canada terrain data contains information licensed under the Open Government
  Licence – Canada;
* Europe terrain data produced using Copernicus data and information funded by the
  European Union - EU-DEM layers;
* Global ETOPO1 terrain data U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
* Mexico terrain data source: INEGI, Continental relief, 2016;
* New Zealand terrain data Copyright 2011 Crown copyright (c) Land Information New
  Zealand and the New Zealand Government (All rights reserved);
* Norway terrain data © Kartverket;
* United Kingdom terrain data © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right
  2015. All rights reserved;
* United States 3DEP (formerly NED) and global GMTED2010 and SRTM terrain data
  courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Natural Earth Shaded Relief Tiles¶

The Natural Earth II with Shaded Relief rendered to XYZ tiles.

The tiles are available as retina and non-retina tiles, served as PNG or WEBP (format is automatically selected based on the browser).

This tileset is available from zoom 0 to zoom 6.

URL¶

https://tiles.stadiamaps.com/data/ne_shaded_relief/{z}/{x}/{y}{r}.png

Optional Attributions¶

If you use this data in a map, you may include the following attributions (but it is not required):

Made with Natural Earth.

Natural Earth Bathymetry Tiles¶

The Natural Earth Bathymetry vector data in MVT format. Often used to add additional detail to ocean rendering.

This tileset is available from zoom 0 to zoom 8.

Tile Schema¶

Layer bathymetry¶

• Feature Type: Polygon
• Attributes:
  • depth: depth of the ocean in meters (possible values: 0, 200, 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000, 10000)

Polygons are nested, so if the ocean is 2000 m deep in an area, there will be a 0, 200, 1000, and 2000 polygon covering that area.

URL¶

https://tiles.stadiamaps.com/data/ne_bathymetry/{z}/{x}/{y}.pbf

Optional Attributions¶

If you use this data in a map, you may include the following attributions (but it is not required):

Made with Natural Earth.

Looking for something else?¶

We're always happy to host additional data sets that make sense for our customers. Feel free to reach out to request new data or tilesets!