Map Tiles

Create immersive experiences with Map Tiles

Easily build and customize immersive maps at scale with 2D, 3D, and Street View Tiles.

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High-quality map tiles

Access Google’s high-quality 2D, 3D and Street View Tiles.

Expansive coverage

Access photorealistic 3D Tiles in over 49 countries, and 2D Tiles in 250+ countries and territories.

Flexible development

Build immersive experiences at scale, for virtually any type of application stack.

Photorealistic 3D Tiles

Create immersive 3D map experiences

Create 3D visualization experiences

Access a 3D mesh model of the real world, textured with our high-res RGB optical imagery, with the same 3D map source as Google Earth.

Provide imagery with unmatched realism in your maps

Help your users more easily explore, navigate, and evaluate an area with 3D imagery of buildings, landmarks, terrain, and natural surroundings.

Design 3D experiences the easier way

Utilize one of the world’s most comprehensive 3D geo datasets; use the renderer of your choice and overlay your own data.

How you can use Photorealistic 3D Tiles

Showcase and contextualize a location

Help your users experience a real place remotely through photorealistic imagery. Or, show how a future project could look like in the real world.

Illustration of a plane flying over mountains

Help users navigate with more realism

Help users orient, find and navigate to a specific location, using 3D buildings, landmarks and natural surroundings for more geographic context.

Create compelling narratives about physical assets

Communicate spatial patterns with more intuitive map views for land development, asset management and environmental policy development.

Plan and imagine future possibilities

Create real-world AR experiences or collaborate on urban planning projects. Build a themed or branded visual experience over real-world imagery.

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High-resolution Photorealistic 3D tiles

Power next-gen 3D visual experiences

Access Google’s 3D mesh model of the real world, textured with high-res imagery.

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CARTO and photorealistic 3D tiles

Use Photorealistic 3D Tiles to create engaging data displays

Understand the multiple benefits of vegetation in cities with this map demo. Learn how you can use 3D city imagery, heat mapping, layered visualizations, and other customizations using Photorealistic 3D Tiles.

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Photorealistic 3D Tiles flyover

Tour Europe from the skies

Fly your own paper airplane above the streets and rooftops of Europe, powered by Photorealistic 3D Tiles. Demo created by Nils Bakker.

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New Google Maps API with Geopogo Cities

Access cities around the world

Geopogo Cities gives architects, urban planners, and commercial developers the power to showcase their designs in cities around the world using Photorealistic 3D Tiles.

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3D, AR guided tours

Create guided AR tours in 3D

Create augmented-reality guided tours of destinations right from your browser that can be experienced in real time by your users. Demo created by Alberto Taiuti from Skydio.

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2D Tiles

Explore what you can build with 2D map and Street View Tiles

Use Google’s Map Tiles for virtually any type of application

Map Tiles enable use cases for all applications, including platforms that are incompatible with JavaScript API and Android and iOS SDKs.

Create highly customized visualizations

Map Tiles give you the flexibility to design unique interfaces and interactions. You can also overlay custom data and graphics.

Build immersive Street View experiences

Create powerful, immersive experiences by leveraging images taken from the street level using Street View images and tile metadata.

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Start building with 2D Map Tiles

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Try Aerial View. With a simple API call, it provides access to pre-rendered cinematic videos without needing to build infrastructure or worry about scale.

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