

After you provide them with a map-style URL, these SDKs will selectively fetch source data as needed, combine them together into a final image, and render it on a canvas.
#MAPTILER BASIC TILES ANDROID#
To display a map style, use MapLibre GL JS on the web, or MapLibre GL Native on Android or iOS. Map styles can be imported from compatible tools, and exported for backup. Even customized maps have an underlying style as well. Each map has a style associated with it, and that’s what you see in the map editor. The whole description is known as a style. The design is separated into layers, each describing which source data will be shown and how. The map is a combination of data pulled from one or more sources, with a cartographic design applied to it. To explain what the editor allows you to do, we need to look at how maps and their definitions are represented.

Starting from a copy of an existing map, or from scratch, you will have control over every aspect of the map content. This way you can easily tailor the map to match your company brand or product design. This process will create a copy of the map in your account, and give you the option of changing the basic color scheme, the language used for labels, fonts, etc. Our standard maps can also be customized. The easiest way to start using MapTiler Cloud maps is to pick one of them and embed it into your website or app. Some of them are global and cover the whole planet, while others are local to a specific country. We offer several ready-made maps, which you can see on the listing page. The type of document you most likely want to show to your end-users is a map. Different types are tailored towards different use-cases and use different file formats. The three types of documents are distinguished primarily by the technology used to represent them and deliver them to end-users. These do have specific definitions in the context of MapTiler Cloud, however, so let’s go over them and see what they mean exactly. A simple sketch drawn on a paper napkin by hand could be a “map”, and almost anything delivered to your browser or mobile app over the Internet could be described as “data”. We have some general sounding terms for the different kinds of documents you can use with MapTiler Cloud: maps, tiles, data. In this article, we will explain the different types of documents, their use cases, formats, and how they are related. Some of them are prepared by MapTiler and available for everybody to use. One of the primary capabilities of MapTiler Cloud is the hosting of online map documents.
