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Changing the GeoMap basemap after MapQuest discontinue the direct tile access

I had a call from a customer today about the Geo Maps within their Design Studio dashboard. They use the standard GeoMap component which, by default, uses the MapQuest basemap (http://otile1.mqcdn.com/tiles/1.0.0/map/{LOD}/{X}/{Y}.png).

When running the dashboard, they received the following messages in the map rendering (note this is a test map/dashboard and not the actual productive version).

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Looking at the MapQuest communication, they discontinued the direct tile access to MapQuest legacy maps after 11th July 2016 and you need to sign up for an account (and developer key) on their developer network.

http://devblog.mapquest.com/2016/06/15/modernization-of-mapquest-results-in-changes-to-open-tile-access/

In order to quickly get the maps working again and not have to sign up for an account and worry about API/developer keys I used some of the other base maps available. Thanks to Mike Howles for his guidance in this previous SCN post.

The new/alternative base map URLs can be entered into the GeoMap’s Basemap URL property.

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The ones I quickly tried (after converting the parameter to be Design Studio friendly) were as below, along with the screenshots of the tests I did.Obviously the maps look different to the MapQuest one so that needs to be taken into consideration. The custom GeoJSONs worked perfectly again after choosing the new basemaps.


OpenStreetMap

http://tile.openstreetmap.org/{LOD}/{X}/{Y}.png

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Stamen Map

http://tile.stamen.com/toner/{LOD}/{X}/{Y}.png


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ESRI

http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Topo_Map/MapServer/tile/{LOD}/{Y}/{X}.png

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For the customer’s scenarios they have two map layers  – one for the group of locations, where the boundary of the region is coloured and then the coloured polygons within that boundary.

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      Author's profile photo Michael Howles
      Michael Howles

      Holy cow, this is going to cause a LOT of problems for anyone using the default tile URLs in DS 1.5/1.6!  Wow, I cannot believe MapQuest and SAP didn't sync up on this earlier, or MapQuest pulled the rug out from underneath SAP.  (Whatever the case, it's an issue now!)  I'm glad my prior post helped!

      This also impacts the SCN OpenSource Maps, so I'll make a change to the default basemap tile layer to accomodate.

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      Former Member

      Mike,

      Is there any url to see the sat.view in openstreetmap or any other map provider which I can use in design studio. if so can you please let me know the url.

      Thanks

      john

      Author's profile photo Michael Howles
      Michael Howles

      ESRI has a decent one.  The Design Studio Geo Map URL pattern is:

      http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Imagery/MapServer/tile/{LOY}/{Y}/{X}

      (Make sure you are license to use ESRI though, etc.)

      Nokia HERE also has one.

      Author's profile photo Michael Hamm
      Michael Hamm

      Same for us. We raised an prio high SAP Incident yesterday morning and the answer was that we should contact MapQuest to solve this..

      Luckily yesterday we found the same workaround as mentioned above in the blog.

      Solution from SAP: http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2342111

      BR,

      Michael

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      Former Member
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      Thanks Mike.

      Holy cow indeed. My jaw dropped when I found out via the customer!

      I had to admit, I was surprised you hadn't beaten me to it in terms of on getting something posted here on SCN, so I guess this meant there was no communications from any side like you said!

      Author's profile photo Michael Howles
      Michael Howles

      Haha, I had to sleep so you got the drop on me 🙂

      But in all seriousness no I wouldn't have known ahead of time, as I don't check the map tile provider sites/blogs often (MapQuest, Mapbox, ESRI, etc.)  Judging by the tile message and blog post, it was just turned off yesterday so I'm assuming there will be a few customers waking up to this issue today.

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      Former Member

      Mike,

      I am doing a prototype for a project at present we don't have license for ESRI, Is Nokia also licensed, If not can you provide the Nokia url.

      Thanks

      John

      Author's profile photo Michael Howles
      Michael Howles

      Do some Googling.  There's many options depending on your organization's licensing options and your mapping requirements.

      Author's profile photo Ian Henry
      Ian Henry

      I'm not sure about the licensing, I think you would need to check with the Nokia Here Website.

      The URL I have tested that works is

      https://1.base.maps.cit.api.here.com/maptile/2.1/maptile/newest/normal.day/{LOD}/{X}/{Y}/256/png8?app_id=DemoAppId010820…

      Author's profile photo Vincent Dechandon
      Vincent Dechandon

      Switch to the Galigeo geomapping extension for DS and you won't have this kind of problem 😉 .

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      Former Member

      Hmm... are you saying that Galigeo comes with it's own map provider or just a different standard than MapQuest? Or would there just have been information ahead of time?

      I'm a bit confused what a switch would have made better...

      Author's profile photo Vincent Dechandon
      Vincent Dechandon

      Galigeo solutions provide different basemaps from differents providers by default and let you had your own basemap (if you have your own ESRI Server for example). Anyway if any of the providers shall shut done a service, we have a fallback system that switch to OSM.

      Was just saying that it would not happen in general with Galigeo, not talking specifically about MapQuest. If MapQuest shuts down its service there is nothing anyone can do about it.

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      Former Member

      Good for the customers, that you're keeping the providers in your solution up to date 😉

      It will be interesting to see, which new "default" provider SAP will choose for the next update btw, if any.

      Author's profile photo Michael Howles
      Michael Howles

      There's now an SAP Note as of mid-July officially on this (basically same answer, use a new basemap):

      https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2342111/E