Tiles

Ordnance Survey map tiles for Britain — the basemap under anything spatial

Calling it

Everything here is public and free. No token, no account, no payment.

Methods

GET /api/v1/tiles/area

Every tile covering a bounding box at a zoom level, as URLs, row by row from the north-west, and how many are already held. What to ask for when you want the map around a place rather than one numbered tile

Argument	Type	Description
`north`	number	Northern edge, in degrees latitude
`south`	number	Southern edge
`east`	number	Eastern edge, in degrees longitude
`west`	number	Western edge
`zoom`	number	Zoom level, 0 to 20
`style`	string	road, outdoor or light

curl \
  "https://mu-mcp.yvangodard.me/api/v1/tiles/area"

northsoutheastwestzoomstyle

GET /api/v1/tiles/tile

The URL for one map tile, by zoom, column and row. Styles: road, outdoor (rights of way and contours), light (a quiet basemap to draw on). Free. Britain only

Argument	Type	Description
`z`	number	Zoom level, 0 to 20
`x`	number	Tile column at that zoom
`y`	number	Tile row at that zoom
`style`	string	road, outdoor or light — outdoor has rights of way and contours

curl \
  "https://mu-mcp.yvangodard.me/api/v1/tiles/tile"

zxystyle

The same methods are tools over MCP, and every service on this instance is in one reference. Same method, same answer, same price.