ThinkGeo Cloud is a set of cloud-hosted RESTful APIs, which have been designed to optimize your productivity in the world of mapping by taking away the complicated deployments, data warehousing and IT concerns that you would normally encounter. It can be consumed from a web page, as well as Desktop applications or Mobile Apps on a different platform.

ThinkGeo Cloud is easy to get started for anyone including those without too much coding background. Just log into the console, create a key and go ahead and use it. Here is how to do it in general:

Log into ThinkGeo Cloud Console with existing ThinkGeo account or sign up a new one. Not just for creating client keys, you can also check out recent activities, API references, and online samples.

A client key (can either be an APIKey, or ClientId and ClientSecret combination) is needed to consume the Cloud services. Two test client keys are pre-generated for each account and you can also create as many new keys as you want. Check out ThinkGeo Cloud Client Keys Guideline to see how to get the keys and how to use it.

Now with the key, you can hit the ThinkGeo Cloud RESTful APIs in any platform through any language. Check out ThinkGeo Cloud RESTful APIs and find out what APIs are available. By authorizing with a key (check it out here for how to do it), you can also try out those APIs online.

Furthermore, ThinkGeo Cloud .NET SDK and ThinkGeo Cloud JavaScript SDK are provided to make it easier for using the ThinkGeo Cloud RESTful APIs in a .NET/JavaScript application.

ThinkGeo Cloud includes the following Services. More Services are on the way. A complete API list can be found here: ThinkGeo Cloud APIs

ThinkGeo offers two prepackaged API clients for developers who want to use the ThinkGeo Cloud APIs in their applications. Currently the following API clients are available:

This gallery shows samples consuming ThinkGeo Cloud on different platforms. It's either the online sample you can interact with, or it's the sample overview with animated snapshots and the source.

For Evaluation users:

• Each user can evaluate for 60 days.
• Each user has 10k credits per day within the 60 days evaluation.
• A warning message “Only X days before evaluation” shows up when there are less than 14 days left for evaluation.
• An HTTP 400 Bad Request Error with the Expiration message will return after it expires.

For Subscription user:

• There are 2 price models available, $495 per month or $4,995 per year. Users can purchase through the subscription manager, the annual subscription can be purchased through ThinkGeo Sales as well.
• A subscribed user has 100k credits per day or 3 million credits per month.
• The credits in the current month don’t roll over to the next month.
• The service will not shut down if it exceeds the credit. Instead, a warning email will send over to the customer from sales@thinkgeo.com about the service termination/purchasing more credits. The service will shut down for that customer 14 days after the expiration if no further steps are taken.

Here is what one credit means for different services:

• One credit is one elevation request for up to 100 points. For example, if I get elevation information within a polygon and get 1,500 elevation points, it takes 15 credits.
• One credit is one reverse geocoding request. For example, it takes 100 credits for a batch reverse geocoding with 100 address.
• One credit is one geocoding request. For example, it takes 100 credits for a batch geocoding with 100 address.
• One credit is one map view, which is 10 XYZ tile request, including vector tile request or raster tile request.
• One credit is one WMS tile request.
• One credit is one Color Scheme request.
• One credit is one projection conversion for up to 100 vertices. For example, if I project one polygon with 1,500 vertices from projection A to projection B, it takes 15 credits.

• Features & Bug Fixes Change Log

  This changelog details the new features and bug fixes applied to the product for each major release cycle.

• General Questions

  These frequently asked questions cover GIS and map control topics that are not categorized in other areas.