Mapsource.io

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Mapsource (mapsource.io) is a commercial hosted geospatial API service providing access to OpenStreetMap data, map tiles, place search, routing, terrain data, spatial analysis, and related developer services.

Services

OpenStreetMap queries

  • Hosted Overpass API-compatible queries using standard Overpass QL
  • Nodes, ways, relations, generated areas, tags, geometry, recursion, and metadata
  • JSON, XML, and CSV output

Maps

  • Raster basemap tiles using CARTO Dark Matter and Positron styles
  • Vector tiles using the OpenMapTiles schema
  • Custom MapLibre-compatible basemap styles
  • Static PNG map rendering
  • Address and place search
  • Business and brand search
  • Autocomplete
  • Reverse geocoding
  • Regional OpenStreetMap POI discovery

Routing and navigation

  • Turn-by-turn routing
  • Travel-time and distance matrices
  • Isochrones
  • Map matching
  • Road-network snapping
  • Multi-stop route optimization

Routing is computed from OpenStreetMap data using Valhalla.

Terrain and analysis

  • Point elevation
  • Terrain tiles
  • Contour generation
  • Geometry buffering, measurement, intersection, combination, and simplification
  • Multi-step geospatial compute pipelines

Agent access

Mapsource also exposes its search, navigation, analysis, rendering, terrain, and OpenStreetMap query services through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

API access

Mapsource is a subscription service. Authenticated APIs use an API key sent as an HTTP Bearer credential.

The Overpass interpreter is available at:

https://mapsource.io/api/interpreter

For existing Overpass clients that cannot set request headers, Mapsource also provides a path-key compatibility endpoint:

https://mapsource.io/api/YOUR_API_KEY/interpreter

Data and attribution

OpenStreetMap query and routing data is derived from OpenStreetMap and is subject to the Open Database License.

Basemap vector tiles use the OpenMapTiles schema and OpenFreeMap-distributed map data. Raster basemaps include CARTO Dark Matter and Positron styles.