[Talk-GB] Closed software supplier ESRI creates OSM vector tile basemap

[Mark Goodge]

On 10/07/2018 23:10, Paul Norman wrote:
> On 2018-07-10 2:00 PM, Mark Goodge wrote:
>> ESRI's free maps can be accessed as server-side tiles. See 
>> Leaflet-providers for some examples:
>>
>> https://leaflet-extras.github.io/leaflet-providers/preview/
>>
>> I'm not sure of the licence restrictions which apply to them, or any 
>> rate limits. But, from a technical point of view, it's just as easy to 
>> use as OSM Carto tiles. 
> 
> The ESRI layers listed on leaflet-providers are from a different host, 
> and looking at URLs, I wasn't able to get raster tiles from the new 
> vector basemap.

The ESRI layers are served from arcgisonline.com, which is one of ESRI's 
domains.

Mark