Raster service

Purpose

The Map Display API Raster web services suite offers the following service endpoints:

Map Tile

TomTom's global digital map content comprises a large volume of data, which is divided into gridded sections called tiles to efficiently transmit map images for display over the Internet to multiple users simultaneously.

• The tiles are rendered at various sizes and available at 23 different zoom levels, ranging from 0 to 22.
• For zoom level 0, the entire earth is displayed on one single tile, while at zoom level 22, the world is divided into 2⁴⁴ tiles.

Satellite Tile

TomTom's global digital map content comprises a large volume of data, and to efficiently transmit satellite map images for display over the Internet simultaneously to multiple users, the data are divided into gridded sections called tiles.

• The tiles are available at 20 different zoom levels, ranging from 0 to 19.
• For zoom level 0, the entire earth is displayed on one single tile, while at zoom level 19, the world is divided into 2³⁸ tiles.

Hillshade Tile

The Hillshade Tile service provides an image pyramid that contains elevation data with terrain representation. It can be used for rendering hillshade that shows the topographical shape of hills and mountains. The data are divided into gridded sections called tiles.

• The tiles are available at 14 different zoom levels, ranging from 0 to 13.

WMS

This API is suitable for GIS software clients such as ArcGIS and Quantum GIS that manage the interaction with WMS services itself. The following two mandatory operations defined for WMS 1.1.1 are provided:

• GetCapabilities: The purpose of this operation is to obtain service metadata, which is a human-readable description of the server information content and acceptable request parameter values.
• GetMap: Produces a map within a given bounding box.

WMTS

Only a single operation defined by the 1.0.0 version of the WMTS standard is provided - GetCapabilities. It allows clients to receive a metadata resource that describes the abilities of the specific server implementation.

Static Image

The Static Image service renders a user-defined, rectangular image, containing a map section. The map images can be generated at various sizes and allow zoom levels ranging from 0 to 22.