This was our very first vector tileset. Originally designed to power the Transport layer, it’s also useful for general-purpose maps since it contains roads and paths and can serve as a reasonably lightweight alternative to the thunderforest.outdoors-v2 tileset. It’s a good place to start.
This vector tileset is now deprecated, and should not be used for your projects. We recommend using thunderforest.transport-v2 instead.
The TileJSON endpoint for this vector tileset is
https://tile.thunderforest.com/thunderforest.transport-v1.json?apikey={apikey}
Layer ID | Description |
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coast-lowzoom |
Simplified water-polygon coastlines for drawing at low zoomsID
Number - do not use
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coast |
Coastlines as water-polygonserror
Number
tile_x
Number
tile_y
Number
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greenspaces | Green spaces - a mixture of parks, gardens, woods and forests |
waterfill-outline-lowzoom | Large-area bodies of water, used for outlines |
waterfill-outline | Bodies of water, used for outlines |
water | Rivers, streams and canals |
waterfill-lowzoom | Large-area bodies of water, used for polygon fills |
waterfill | Bodies of water, used for polygon fills |
marshy | Marshes and wetlands |
ferries | Ferry routes |
aeroway-areas | no description yet |
aeroway | Runway and taxiway lines |
buildings |
Buildingsaeroway
String - 'terminal' - this is an airport terminal building
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roads | Minor roads, from tertiary onwards |
major-roads |
Major roads, and their linkshighway
String
|
paths | Paths, tracks, steps etc |
railway-platforms | Railway platforms |
railway-platform-areas | Railway platform areas |
railway-sidings |
Railway sidingstunnel
String
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railway |
Railways, monorails, subways etc.bridge
String
railway
String
tunnel
String
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railway-station-buildings-midzoom |
Buildings that are train stationsbuilding
String
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stop-zones |
Bus stop zones, collected by namename
String - The name of the zone
stop_count
Number - Number of stops in this zone
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bus-routes |
Bus route and trolley bus route linesbus_route
String
trolleybus_route
String
|
ne-10m-admin-0-land |
Country Borders from Natural Earthadm0_a3_l
String
adm0_a3_r
String
adm0_left
String
adm0_right
String
adm0_usa
Number
comment
String
featurecla
String
FID_ne_10m
Number
labelrank
Number
name
String
note_
String
scalerank
Number
sov_a3_l
String
sov_a3_r
String
type
String
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ne-10m-admin-1-lines |
State borders from Natural Earthadm0_a3
String
adm0_name
String
featurecla
String
mapcolor13
Number
mapcolor9
Number
name
String
name_alt_l
String
name_alt_r
String
name_l
String
name_len_l
Number
name_len_r
Number
name_loc_l
String
name_loc_r
String
name_r
String
note
String
scalerank
Number
shape_leng
Number
sov_a3
String
|
ne-10m-admin-0-countries |
Country centroids, for label placementlabelrank
Number
name
String
scalerank
Number
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ne-10m-admin-1-poly |
State centroids, for label placementname
String
postal
String
sr_adm0_a3
String
|
cities-point |
Cities from the points tablename
String
population
Number
|
cities-poly |
Citie centroids from the polygon tablename
String
population
Number
|
places-poly-low |
Place centroids from the polygon tablename
String
place
String
place_priority
Number
|
places-point-low |
Places from the point tablename
String
place
String
place_priority
Number
|
station-areas |
Railway station polygons, used for iconsrailway
String
|
stations-points |
Railway station points, used for iconsrailway
String
|
station-areas-text |
Labels for railway stations defined as areasname
String
railway
String
|
stations-points-text |
Labels for railway stations defined as pointsname
String
railway
String
|
stop-zones-text |
Labels for bus stop zonesname
String
|
places-poly-high |
Labels for place areasname
String
place
String
place_priority
Number
|
places-point-high |
Labels for place pointsname
String
place
String
place_priority
Number
|
bus-stops |
Bus stop positionshas_short_ref
String - 'yes' for local_refs of 0,1,2 characters, otherwise 'no'
local_ref
String - the reference displayed on top of bus stops, usually unique only in the surrounding area
|
bus-stops-text |
Bus stop labelshas_short_ref
String - 'yes' for local_refs of 0,1,2 characters, otherwise 'no'
local_ref
String - the reference displayed on top of bus stops, usually unique only in the surrounding area
name
String - the name of the bus stop
|
bus-routes-text |
Labels for bus routesbus_route
String - Whether the route is a bus route (yes or null)
padded_bus_ref
String - The reference wrapped in spaces
|
trolleybus-routes-text |
Labels for trolleybus routespadded_trolleybus_ref
String - the reference wrapped with spaces
trolleybus_route
String - whether the line is a trolleybus route (yes or null)
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railway-platforms-text |
The name of railway platformsname
String
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major-roads-text |
Labels for major roads and linksname
String - The name of the road
|
roads-text |
Labels for minor roadsname
String - The name of the road
|
paths-text |
Labels for paths, tracks, steps etcname
String - The name of the path
|