Seeing progress on the ground

High-resolution imagery of the world around us

Use directly or integrate into your products

More than 20 million GB of aerial and satellite imagery right at your fingertips.


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Countries

Covered by high resolution aerial imagery, and satellite imagery for the remaining part of the globe.

Sq. km

Ready to be explored by you and your customers. No more contract negotiations or licensing issues.

Tiles per month

Always included in our Business plan, so you don't have to worry about hidden costs.


Data the way you need them

Use them for yourself, show them to your customers, or integrate them into your own products.

Data the way you need them

Use them internally or show them to customers. It's your decision.

Simple APIs

We use interfaces already supported by a wide range of desktop applications and software libraries.

Add analytics

Create value-added services by using our analytics APIs, or by designing your own on top of the data.

Permissive licenses

There are no hidden limitations. You are welcome to provide data to your customers, and to download them locally.

Integrate into your products

Add a map or an analysis to your own application, and build your own services based on our APIs.

Simple APIs

We use interfaces already supported by
a wide range of desktop applications and software libraries.

Permissive licenses

There are no hidden limitations. You are welcome to provide data to your customers, and to download them locally.

Add analytics

Create value-added services by using our analytics APIs, or by designing your own
on top of the data.

Integrate into your products

Add a map or an analysis to your own application, and build your own services
based on our APIs.


Frequently asked questions

See the pricing page for detailed information.
In short, aerial data is captured from airplanes, while satellite data is, as the name implies, captured by satellites in orbit around the Earth. A good rule of thumb is that aerial data is of very high resolution, as the planes fly closer to the ground, and satellite data is lower resolution but updated much more often, as they are orbiting the Earth and continuously capturing new data.

For more information, see our blog post on the subject.
When you navigate our maps, you'll notice small squares loading - these are 'tiles'. With our business package, you receive 500,000 of these tiles per month. This covers most use cases, unless you have a service which is used by many external users. Additional tiles on top of the base package are invoiced per 1,000 tiles. Please see the pricing page for more information.

To be sure there are no unpleasant surprises for you, we have set a default monthly limit, such that you cannot query more tiles than included in the base package, without requesting it. You are welcome to contact us at [email protected] to increase your limit.
Yes, you can download and store the data locally. In fact, it is very easy to do so. We recommend the Contextily Python package, which supports downloading images from our APIs and storing them in standard image formats, such as JPEG or PNG, or as geo-referenced images in GeoTIFF format. Send us a mail at [email protected] if you would like a Python script to get started.
Absolutely. It is a high priority for us to include more countries, and we are currently looking into adding a range of new ones.