Additional Data Tilesets

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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.

What do {x}, {y}, {z}, and {r} mean?

The {x}, {y}, and {z} placeholders represent x, y, and zoom following the standard slippy map tilename convention. This format is used by most popular libraries. Note that our tile numbering uses the XYZ scheme, not TMS.

The {r} placeholder is used for HiDPI ("retina") display suppoort. Popular web map renderers like Leaflet understand this placeholder. If your renderer does not understand this (e.g., MapLibre GL JS or QGIS), you can either remove the placeholder to get raw 256x256 PNGs, or replace it with @2x for 2x scaled images.

Global Landcover Tiles

Based on the ESA's excellent WorldCover project, our Global Landcover tileset helps you add color based on what's actually on the ground. This satellite landcover layer is designed for coarse-grained coverage covering the whole planet.

Our Stadia Outdoors and Stamen Terrain styles showcase how to balance this tileset at lower zoom levels with the higher resolution, sparser coverage landcover layer as you zoom in.

This tileset is available from zoom 0 to zoom 7. However, as our reference styles demonstrate, some of the best applications effectively utilize overzoom and blur over several zoom levels to create a natural transition.

MapLibre GL JS Quickstart

To help get you started, we have also created this tutorial that walks you through how to incorporate the Global Landcover Tiles with MapLibre GL JS.

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
    • sand
    • rock - bare rock
    • bare - other areas of sparse vegetation which are not predominately sand or rock
    • wetland
    • lichen - typically found in tundra regions, moss or lichen covered regions

URL

XYZ 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

XYZ 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

XYZ URL (with retina support)

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

XYZ 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!