How to use Planet Lab tiles in Jupyter Notebook?

Question

I just want to use Planet tiles as a basemap for a Jupyter Notebook application, using ipyleaflet widget.

In my environment, I imported these packages:

from ipyleaflet import Map, basemaps, basemap_to_tiles, TileLayer

Now, I am trying to initialize a map and streaming Planet tiles using my API.

planet_tiles_url=("https://tiles{0}.planet.com/basemaps/v1/planet-tiles/global_monthly_2016_05_mosaic/gmap/{x}/{y}/{z}.png?api_key=abc123")
tile_layer=TileLayer(url=planet_tiles_url)

m = Map(
    default_tiles=tile_layer,
    center=center,
    zoom=14,
    scroll_wheel_zoom=True)

m.add_layer(tile_layer)
m.add_control(LayersControl())
m

No error pops up. But no Planet basemap is displayed and not even the layer controls. See image..

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

One thing that looks wrong is tiles{0}. Try just tiles. If that works, then try tiles{s} for a small performance improvement.

The other issue is the order of x, y and z in the tile URL. It should be {z}/{x}/{y}.

Here is working code:

from ipyleaflet import Map, TileLayer
planet_tiles_url=("https://tiles.planet.com/basemaps/v1/planet-tiles/global_monthly_2018_10_mosaic/gmap/{z}/{x}/{y}.png?api_key=API_KEY")
tile_layer=TileLayer(url=planet_tiles_url)

m = Map(
    default_tiles=tile_layer,
    zoom=4,
    scroll_wheel_zoom=True)

m.add_layer(tile_layer)
m