Stadia Maps Blog

Stamen Design × Stadia Maps

Stadia Maps and Stamen Design are pleased to announce a long-term partnership to build mapping services to make great maps accessible to everyone.

New SDK for Swift is Now Available

The Stadia Maps Swift SDK brings geocoding, routing, elevation, and time zone APIs to iOS with async/await support and full Xcode autocomplete.

Major Update to Our Geocoding and Autocomplete Search Data

City and postal code data for over 50 million US addresses improved for completeness, USPS-aligned formatting, and searchability.

Three New SDKs and MapLibre GL JS Search Plugin Are Now Available

Stadia Maps SDKs for JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and Kotlin, plus a MapLibre GL JS plugin that adds autocomplete search to maps in a few lines of code.

Generally Available: Geocoding & Autocomplete Search with SDKs

Stadia Maps Geocoding & Autocomplete Search APIs reach general availability: forward, reverse, and structured geocoding with SDKs for TypeScript and Python.

European Union-only Endpoints Are Now Available

Stadia Maps EU-only API endpoints are now live. Route all map tile and API traffic through EU servers for easier GDPR compliance.

Satellite Maps Are Now Available

Stadia Maps now offers satellite and aerial imagery tiles. Add up-to-date satellite basemaps to your web or mobile app via the API.

New Plans & Pricing in 2023

Stadia Maps 2023 pricing update: monthly credit-based usage replaces daily map views and API request limits, with per-plan feature access.

Map Style Improvements and House Number Layer

Stadia Maps map style update: improved highway shield rendering and house number display for cleaner, more accurate vector maps.

Announcing Simplified Account-Based Billing

Stadia Maps bills per account, not per property — one subscription covers combined usage across all your properties, with an account-level usage overview.

Announcing Improved Static Maps with Customizable Lines

Add customizable polylines to static map images to visualize routes, hiking tracks, and flight paths, plus a new Mumbai PoP for faster maps in India.

Announcing Time Zone APIs and a Documentation Refresh

Stadia Maps product update: the Time Zone API is now live, plus major improvements to our developer documentation.

Mapbox GL JS v2 Licensing and Stadia Maps

How the Mapbox GL JS license change affects developers, and why Stadia Maps + MapLibre GL JS is the best open-source alternative.

Product Update: Improved Tiles, a New Tier, and Stadia Maps News

Faster raster tiles, an improved Outdoors style, the Stadia Growth pricing tier, and Stadia Maps news from mid-2020.

Helping Businesses Deliver Location Experiences Before, During, and After COVID-19

How Stadia Maps helped businesses maintain affordable maps and navigation during COVID-19, with free or discounted services for pandemic-response projects.

Enhanced Documentation and Introducing mkjsfiddle

We've enhanced our documentation with JSFiddle integration and open-sourced the code we used to do it!

Announcing Elevation Data

Taking our services to the next level: elevation data at a point, along a path, and for elevation-influenced routing.

Mapping Infrastructure v2 Release

Stadia Maps infrastructure v2: upgraded tile servers, improved OpenStreetMap data pipelines, and faster global map tile delivery.