Introduction

The Map Content API is a machine-readable way of discovering, requesting, filtering and retrieving TomTom Maps products. Customers are able to query our map catalog to have an overview of our product offerings and the available coverage per product. Fine-grained control on coverage and feature types allows users to retrieve only a specific set of content or the full product.

Who should read this document

This document is intended for developers who will be integrating their software with Map Content API.

Getting started

Obtaining latest releases of a product family

If you start clean slate:

1. Find an id of a family you are interested in. See listing families.

2. Find ids of latest releases for a family id.

3. Download releases using one of the proposed approaches (see below).

Downloading a release

There are few ways to download a release:

• For a given release id, collect content ids to be downloaded. See: retrieving a release. Use filters if needed. Download contents one by one using http client of choice.

• Download a metalink file per release and use a download manager that supports metalink files.

• Use CLI tool to download required releases.