https://www.xga.ie/tags/maps/Recent content in Maps on XGAHugoen-gbSat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.xga.ie/posts/grafana-carto-map-api/Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.xga.ie/posts/grafana-carto-map-api/<p>CARTO now require an API key to utilise their basemaps. We use these maps for some low traffic internal dashboards.</p> <h2 id="getting-an-api-key"> Getting an API key <a class="heading-link" href="#getting-an-api-key"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h2> <p>Super simple - go to the <a href="https://carto.com/basemaps/apikey/" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CARTO API key</a> site and request one.</p> <p>I included my use-case was commercial and included the descriptions. A free key was emailed over shortly after.</p> <p>A free key allows for 5 million tile requests in a calendar month, so should be more than sufficient for small projects.</p>