By: Josh Maisey, Principal Technical Product Manager
Eagleview’s Imagery API gives you programmatic access to one of the most detailed and continuously updated visual records of the physical world. Built on decades of high-resolution aerial capture, it delivers orthogonal and oblique imagery, historical views, and post-disaster images through a single API. Unlike static map tiles or one-off image downloads, Eagleview’s APIs let you query real-world assets as a living dataset that changes over time.
Watch this 12-minute demo to see how to request and work with imagery for a real area of interest, and how the Imagery API fits into modern applications and AI workflows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaSjkDmAmkI
You’ll learn about the Imagery API’s three components:
- Discovery: Find images and metadata in Eagleview’s deep historical archive.
- Tiles: 256x256 pixel images, providing high-performance access to Eagleview’s side angle (oblique) and top-down (ortho) imagery.
- Images: Access side angle and top-down images up to 4096x4096 pixels.
You’ll also learn about the new orthomosaic endpoint that was released in late 2025. In addition to the existing endpoints in the Imagery API that give you individual ortho or oblique images, the orthomosaic endpoint returns a stitched, geospatially accurate orthogonal mosaic that covers wide areas.
We encourage you to leverage our free Sandbox to get started interacting with the Imagery API right away. But if you'd like to explore imagery in an area that's meaningful to you, please sign up to secure your spot in our limited trial program.
Questions? Reach out to developerfeedback@eagleview.com at any time.