Map Tiles API release notes

The single quota bucket for all 2D tile types, namely 2D Tiles and Street View Tiles is now split into two new quota buckets:

• 2D Tiles: For all roadmap, satellite, and terrain tile requests
• Street View Tiles: For all Street View image tile requests

The new quota buckets are already active and enforced. Tile API requests currently consume quota from both the old and the new quota buckets.

The old combined bucket will be phased out no sooner than March 10, 2026, and will no longer be visible in the Google Cloud console. Please take the necessary actions by that date:

• Custom quota limits: If you've previously set a quota override for the combined 2D Tiles and Street View Tiles quota bucket, this override has been copied to the new 2D Tiles and Street View Tiles buckets. Please verify them.
• Quota alerts: If you have set up quota alerts for the combined 2D Tiles and Street View Tiles quota bucket, you will need to create similar alerts for the new buckets to continue receiving notifications.

• If your project has used 2D tiles within the last 30 days: the increased quota was automatically applied to the new 2D Tiles bucket.

• If your project has used Street View tiles within the last 30 days: the increased quota was applied to the new Street View Tiles bucket.

• If your project has used both 2D tiles and Street View tiles within the last 30 days: the increased quota was applied to the 2D Tiles and new Street View Tiles buckets.

Otherwise, the default quota limits will apply to the new 2D and Street View Tiles buckets. You can request higher quota limits through the standard process if needed.

The Map Tiles API is making changes to its API response. These changes will go into effect Jun 9, 2025:

• 3D Tiles will continue to be in the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standard glTF format. Renderer implementations must continue to support the OGC glTF specification, and accept any specification-compliant tiles. Any assumption of the existence of structures outside of this format, or reliance on undocumented details, can result in your application breaking.
• root.json will now contain the root tile itself, instead of a link to the root tileset. Moving forward, one HTTP request will be required to begin traversing the tree, instead of two.
• The extras field ("extras":{"comment":"path = "}}]}) will be removed from responses.

You can preview the changes to the response using https://tile.googleapis.com/v1/3dtiles/datasets/CgIYAQ/root?key=<api_key> and compare to the current output of https://tile.googleapis.com/v1/3dtiles/root?key=<api_key>.

The quota limit for Photorealistic 3D Tiles is increasing from 300 to 10,000 root tileset requests per day.

Announcing the General Availability (GA) release of the Maps Tiles API. See the Release Notes for information about this release and for all other releases.

If you are a new user, see Set Up in the Google Cloud Console to start the installation process.

The Map Tiles API is now available in Preview. The Map Tiles API allows you to build immersive, customized map visualizations using high-resolution Photorealistic 3D Tiles, 2D Tiles, and Street View Tiles.