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Raster map tiles for Mapillary traces

Posted by Peter Bremer on 29 November 2016 in English. Last updated on 1 December 2016.

Today, Mapillary released a set of online raster tiles that show all traces (and if you zoom in enough, all individual photo locations). The tiles are transparent PNGs, and can be used on top of other map layers.

The tileset address is https://d6a1v2w10ny40.cloudfront.net/v0.1/{z}/{x}/{y}.png

Note that various mapping software use different formatting for the x, y and z parameters. For example, OsmAnd uses {0}/{1}/{2}.

A demo page is available at http://mm.mapillary.io/raster_tiles.html

For more information, see this Mapillary GitHub issue. Also for reporting problems with the tileset, please use their GitHub repository.

OsmAnd

Here are some step-by-step instructions to add the tileset to OsmAnd. This way you can have a map showing all Mapillary traces with you on your phone, even offline if you cache the tiles before the trip.

  1. Go into “Configure map” (either from the menu, or from the globe icon).
  2. Select “Map source”.
  3. Select “Define/Edit” to define a new map layer.
  4. Name it something like “Mapillary traces”, and as URL enter “https://d6a1v2w10ny40.cloudfront.net/v0.1/{0}/{1}/{2}.png”.
  5. Click “Save” to save the new map.
  6. Now, back in the “Configure map” screen, select your new map as the “Overlay map”, and select an opaque map as the “Map source”.