# Mapsurfer discontinued

**URL:** <https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/mapsurfer-discontinued/1873>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [July 1, 2020, 1:55pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/mapsurfer-discontinued/1873 "2020-07-01T13:55:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![amandus](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/user_avatar/ask.openrouteservice.org/amandus/32/669_2.png) [@amandus](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/u/amandus)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2020, 1:55pm UTC](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/mapsurfer-discontinued/1873/1 "2020-07-01T13:55:21Z")

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Dear users,

i’m very sad to announce that as of today all remnants of the /mapsurfer endpoints will be discontinued and won’t be accessible from our API anymore.

This concerns:  
`/mapsurfer`  
`/mapsurfer/asterh`  
`/mapsurfer/elements-at-risk`  
`/mapsurfer/asterc`  
`/mapsurfer/roads`  
`/mapsurfer/adminb`  
`/cmapsurfer`

For further information on this topic please read the previous announcements:

> [@Mapsurfer endpoint limitations](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/mapsurfer-endpoint-limitations/1442):
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> Dear ORS users, we are experiencing technical difficulties with our server hosting mapsurfer. The /mapsurfer endpoint currently only provides cached map tiles as no new tiles can be generated. It is a possibility that we will discontinue the mapsurfer tile service and remove the /mapsurfer endpoint from our API, due to the additional maintenance effort. Please consider switching to https://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png for the time being. We will keep you posted on the developm…

> [@Mapsurfer deprecation - cached tiles removed after june 2020](https://ask.openrouteservice.org/t/mapsurfer-deprecation-cached-tiles-removed-after-june-2020/1704):
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> Dear Users, We are very sad to announce, that we will not continue providing mapsurfer tiles. As already stated a month ago we were having difficulties with our server responsible for generating the tiles. After evaluation we came to the desicion, that we will discontinue the mapsurfer tile service. Our colleagues who were most experienced with the [Mapsurfer.NET](http://Mapsurfer.NET) framework left our group already a while ago. Due to limited personnel we are unable to distribute human ressources to the tas…

We still hope you enjoy all our other services and wish you as always

Happy routing!

(We are celebrating 1 year HeiGIT anniversary today. So we have at least that going for us 🎉)