Set up the Map Tiles API

Page Summary

• Google Maps Platform products require an API key for authentication and billing purposes, associating your project with your Google billing account.

• API keys can be created and managed through the Google Cloud Console or the Cloud SDK.

• For enhanced security, Google strongly recommends restricting your API keys by limiting their usage to specific APIs and IP addresses.

• Include your API key with every Map Tiles API request, ensuring the URL is properly encoded and uses HTTPS.

• After obtaining your API key, utilize it to create session tokens for accessing 2D and Street View Tiles, or directly for requesting 3D Tiles.

European Economic Area (EEA) developers

If your billing address is in the European Economic Area, effective on 8 July 2025, the Google Maps Platform EEA Terms of Service will apply to your use of the Services. Learn more. In addition, certain content from the Map Tiles API will no longer be returned. Learn more.

This document describes the steps needed to start using the Map Tiles API.

1. Account and billing Ensure that you meet the prerequisites.

2. Enable the API Enable the API in your Google Cloud project.

3. Make your first request Configure an API key or OAuth to make an authenticated API request.

Enable the API

Before you can use Map Tiles API, you must use the Google Cloud console or the gcloud command to enable it in your Google Cloud project.

Note: After you enable an API you might have to wait a few minutes before you can make a request to it.

To enable the API:

Console

1. Open the product page in the Google Cloud console:

   Enable the Map Tiles API

2. Click the Enable button.

   Note: If the API is already enabled, you see the Manage button instead of Enable.

gcloud

gcloud services enable \
    --project "PROJECT" \
    "tile.googleapis.com"

Read more about the Google Cloud SDK , Cloud SDK installation , and the following commands:

• gcloud services enable
• gcloud services disable