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TheheatmapTilesendpoint provides air quality related heatmaps through a tile overlay. A tile
overlay is a collection of PNG image tiles that can be displayed on top of a
Google Maps. Each image tile is (256 x 256 pixels).
About heatmap tiles
The tile overlay is a grid assembled from a collection of tiles,
each assigned (X,Y) coordinates.
The tile with coordinates (0,0) is always at the northwest corner
of the map. TheXvalues increase from west to east,
while theYvalues increase from north to south.
Thezoom leveldetermines how large or small the contents of a map appear in a
map view. The tile grid size is determined by scaling theXandYcoordinates exponentially by the zoom level.
gridSizeX = XzoomLevelgridSizeY = YzoomLevel
For example, at a zoom level of 2, the world map is represented using a 4 x 4
matrix, for a total of 16 tiles. The zoom also determines what is the max value
allowed for the coordinates.
The following image shows aUS_AQIheatmap with a zoom level of 2,
along with the coordinates of each tile:
A heatmap tile is represented by a bytes array containing the tile data as a PNG
image. You request current air quality heatmap tiles using theheatmapTilesendpoint by sending an HTTP GET request to:
Z- Zoom level that determines how large or small the contents of a map
appear in a map view. Allowed values are 0-16, where a value of 0 displays
the entire world in a single tile.
X,Y- The coordinates of the tile to retrieve, relative to the north
west corner (0,0).Xvalues are increasing from west to east andYvalues are increasing from north to south.
Tile coordinates have to be valid for the specified zoom level.
For example, if you set the zoom level to 2, and request a tile at
coordinates of 10,10, the API returns an error.
YOUR_API_KEY- Your application's API key. This key identifies your
application for purposes of quota management. For more information, seeget
a key.
Example heatmap request
The image above shows aUS_AQIheatmap with a zoom level of 2,
along with the coordinates of each tile. The following example uses theheatmapTilesendpoint to request the tile at coordinates 0,1 from the
heatmap:
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