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Use Google basemaps from Carto

Open raybell-md opened this issue 2 months ago • 4 comments

Firstly, thanks for this awesome project!

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I would like to use Google basemaps in lonboard from Carto (https://docs.carto.com/carto-for-developers/carto-for-react/guides/basemaps) e.g. GOOGLE_ROADMAP

Describe the solution you'd like https://developmentseed.org/lonboard/latest/api/basemap/ lists the Google basemaps with instructions on how to pass creds through

Describe alternatives you've considered I should probably figure out how to do this in carto first

Additional context Nope

raybell-md avatar Oct 08 '25 14:10 raybell-md

That link describes Carto's API documentation. We don't use any Carto APIs, we only use the Carto tile service.

Why do you want to use a Google basemap? In the interest of keeping Lonboard small, maintainable, and quick to load, I don't see the benefit of adding different basemap providers than maplibre

kylebarron avatar Oct 08 '25 15:10 kylebarron

Also I think this is a duplicate of https://github.com/developmentseed/lonboard/issues/454 ?

kylebarron avatar Oct 08 '25 15:10 kylebarron

Why do you want to use a Google basemap?

Same reason why one may want to use DarkMatter compared to Voyager etc.

Welcome to close if not in scope.

raybell-md avatar Oct 08 '25 16:10 raybell-md

Is it possible to use Google basemaps without using the Google maps sdk?

kylebarron avatar Oct 08 '25 17:10 kylebarron