• Crater Lake National Park

    NPMap

    Web maps for the National Park Service

Base Maps

Users of the NPMap library are responsible for ensuring they are in compliance with the terms of service for whichever base API(s) and base map/geocoding/routing services they consume in their map.

NPMap can consume base map tiles from many different sources, although not all of these tilesets are available under an existing National Park Service license agreement. The table below lists some of the base maps supported by NPMap and includes information on whether National Park Service users can legally access tiles served from the different vendors.

This list changes as projects fund access to new services and support for providers is added to the library, so please check back here regularly to ensure compliance with current NPS policies. You can also subscribe to our blog’s feed or our mailing list to keep up-to-date.

Source Available to NPS Base API Support
Internal Public bing google leaflet modestmaps
Bing X X X Soon Soon
Esri X X X X X X
Google X X X
MapBox X X X X X X
MapQuest ? ? Soon Soon
Stamen X X X X X X

Providers

Bing

The National Park Service has access to the Bing Maps base maps through an enterprise license agreement with Microsoft. NPMap consumes tiles from the Bing Maps base maps in two ways:

  1. Directly when the bing base API is being used
  2. Via the Bing Maps Imagery API when the leaflet or modestmaps base APIs are being used

If you are not an NPS employee, partner, or contractor, you must obtain and use your own Bing Maps application key when requesting base map tiles from Microsoft’s servers. Obtaining and specifying your own Bing Maps credentials is outlined in the credentials section of the bing base API documentation.

Esri

The National Park Service has access to Esri’s base maps through an enterprise license agreement.

If you are not an NPS employee, partner, or contractor, you are responsible for your web map’s usage of Esri’s base map tiles.

Google

The National Park Service has access to the Google Maps base maps through an enterprise license agreement with Google.

If you are not an NPS employee, partner, or contractor, you must add a credentials property to your web map’s NPMap.config object. Detailed steps can be found in the credentials section of the google base API documentation.

MapBox

The National Park Service has access to the MapBox base maps through an enterprise license agreement.

If you are not an NPS employee, partner, or contractor, you must sign up for your own MapBox account and configure your web map to consume layers from your account. You can get started on the MapBox web site.

MapQuest

More information coming soon.

Stamen

Stamen’s base map tiles are freely available for anyone to use. They do, however, ask that you include an attribution credit on your web map:

Map tiles by <a href="http://stamen.com">Stamen Design</a>, under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0">CC BY 3.0</a>. Data by <a href="http://openstreetmap.org">OpenStreetMap</a>, under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0">CC BY SA</a>.

You can find more info on the maps.stamen.com website.

Examples