Hi! I’m using the new Map traces (that uses Maplibre instead of Mapbox), but I’m wondering if the license for the ‘satellite’ style provided by plotly allows its use in commercial projects, as it’s from ESRI and I’ve heard they are very restrictive. I’ve been reading the licenses but I haven’t found a straight answer.
Hey dkovah,
I’ve spent a lot of time exploring tile layers for maps, the best satellite tile layer I’ve found thats free is:
dl.TileLayer( url="https://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/World_Imagery/MapServer/tile/{z}/{y}/{x}")
I use it in leaflet, but I’d assume it would work in any mapping system that supports tile layers.
Hope this helps and best of luck.
Hi! First of all, thanks! I believe this is actually the one that plotly.js uses by default, do you know if its license allows it to be used in commercial projects?
im not sure, let me know if you get sued tho… “hypothetically” i might have a lot of projects using this tile layer lol
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