The easiest way to add beautiful, informative vector nautical charts to your maritime-related product.
We use Mapbox Vector Tiles, the standard for modern maps, keeping info crisp at any zoom level.
Vector Tiles make our API the smoothest, fastest, and most bandwidth-efficient way to add nautical charts to your app.
Change between day & night color schemes, adjust safety contours, and hide and show specific layers.
Want more customization? Use our style editor to customize any display property.
Build recommendations and location-specific context in your application with the Search API, which provides chart feature data based on spatial searches.
Generate point-to-point route waypoints or check route feasibility with the Routing API.
The Vector Charts API can display data from a wide range of nautical chart & bathymetry sources.
Our free base map sources from government hydrographic offices, including NOAA and the Army Corps of Engineers.
Upload user-purchased S-57, S-63, S-100, and DNC® chart cells (Only in Vector Charts OEM)
We license commercial nautical chart & bathymetry data directly to provide global coverage as paid add-ons.
Join our Crowdsourced Data program to contribute to our ever-growing user-generated maps.
Our APIs are compatible and tested with many popular GIS tools and web map rendering libraries.
Use our turnkey Cloud API, or embed the Vector Charts SDK directly into your product.
Test our chart rendering with Vector Charts Viewer, our free web & mobile marine navigation app.
Vector Charts is built by Zydro Marine Technologies, Inc.