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Information on API Keys
Advantages of API Key Authentication API Key authentication has the following advantages over providing username and password when integrating with Nearmap imagery: More secure: some existing applications do not provide a means of passing through username and password in a secure manner. API Key authentication is a more…
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About Nearmap APIs
Nearmap has a range of APIs to help you access our content in your bespoke application, and in popular GIS and CAD applications. To consume Nearmap content using an API or WMS, you must authenticate using API Key Authentication, and obtain either a Simple WMS URL or a Custom WMS URL to load in the application. Tile API…
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Nearmap TMS Integration
❗️ This API is now deprecated. We are continuing to support this API for existing integrations, however new integrations should be using the new Tile API, in conjunction with the Coverage API. ❗️ At a future time this API will become unavailable. We will communicate the plan for removing the API with customers soon, with a…
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Image API
Retrieving an Image Centered on a Location This API retrieves a JPEG image using the center point of a location. If you do not have permissions to access imagery in the specified location you will get a white rectangle instead of the image. NOTE: The API only returns imagery in Web Mercator projection. URL Format…
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Tile API
Tile API and Coverage API are the first widely available APIs that follow a new standard for Nearmap APIs. Should I be using this API? If you have not used our APIs before then yes, this is the right Tile API for you to use. If you are already using the Nearmap TMS (Tile) API, you should consider switching to this version…
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AI Feature API
AI Feature API The AI Feature API allows you to retrieve a small Area of Interest (AOI) from our vector map that exists for our AI content. You can use your Nearmap AI export credits to extract a single building at a specific location to the AOI enclosed by a property, or even a small neighbourhood. Where the AI Feature…
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Panorama Coordinate Systems
This section provides more background about Nearmap’s Panorama Tile Interface. There is complexity involved in how panorama tiles are arranged, and this section serves as background information to help understand the sample code that is provided below. More sample code is available here. Nearmap Panorama imagery is an…
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Handling Imagery Requests When no Imagery is Available for a Specified Date
This section explains how the Nearmap Image API handles imagery requests when no imagery for a specified date is available. Nearmap imagery is available in developed urban and suburban areas for specific dates. This means that not every API request will return Nearmap imagery. Note that you can determine whether Nearmap…
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Exclude Background Imagery
When using the TMS API, Nearmap returns Nearmap vertical imagery in the areas where we have coverage, and in areas where we do not, Nearmap returns tertiary satellite imagery if it's available. At the edges of Nearmap surveys the background is filled in with the third-party satellite imagery. At high zooms, Nearmap imagery…
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New Standard for Nearmap APIs
Introduction Nearmap's Tile API and Coverage API are the first widely available APIs that follow a new standard for Nearmap APIs. If you have used our APIs before, some of these features may be new to you. The new Nearmap API standard is: Available on HTTPS only A global endpoint, intelligently routing requests to the…