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Get a HERE Account
If you are an individual developer who has signed up for one of the plans listed on our Developer plans page on developer.here.com, you received a HERE account ID when you signed up. You can use your HERE account to log in to developer.here.com to create applications. Applications (uniquely identified by an app ID) enable development with HERE products and services.
Register Your App
- Sign in to developer.here.com.
- Click your name, select Projects, and then choose your project from the list. Your project details and available application credentials are then displayed.
- Click Create API key to generate a maximum of two API keys for your application. The API key is created and displayed.
Get an API Key
- Sign in to developer.here.com.
- Click your name, select Projects, and then choose your project from the list. Your project details and available application credentials are then displayed.
- Click Create API key to generate a maximum of two API keys for your application. The API key is created and displayed.
Send a Request
This is a simple example to demonstrate how to send a request. To obtain the most up-to-date daytime basemap tile image that includes a location in Berlin
, identified by column=4400
and row=2686
and , send the following GET request. The tile's resolution is 256x256 pixels and the format is PNG8.
https://1.base.maps.ls.hereapi.com/maptile/2.1/maptile/newest/normal.day/13/4400/2686/256/png8
?apiKey={YOUR_API_KEY}
Berlin, Germany
. 
Next Steps
- For information on how to construct a request, see Constructing a Request.
- For information on map tiles, see Map Tile (maptile). To understand the Mercator Projection, see The Mercator Projection. For the terms and conditions covering this documentation, see the HERE Documentation License.