Geopolitical views

Borders, names and addresses are disputed in many places, and what is correct depends on who is looking. A geopolitical view picks whose perspective the SDK shows: the borders and names the map draws, and the country a search or reverse geocoding result reports. One setting drives both, so the map and your results never contradict each other.

Pick a territory and a view below: the borders redraw, and the address of the pinned place follows.

Supported views

geopoliticalViews, exported from the Core bundle, lists every view as the GeopoliticalView type:

A few of what the views change:

• IN, PK, CN: the borders of Kashmir, Aksai Chin and Arunachal Pradesh, and the country of their addresses.
• MA, DZ: Western Sahara, as part of Morocco or as a territory of its own.
• KR: the East Sea and Dokdo. US: the Gulf of America. AE: the Arabian Gulf.
• VN, PH, MY: the Paracel and Spratly Islands.

Not every TomTom API serves every view:

The SDK leaves a view out of the requests to an API that does not serve it, so the call still succeeds, in that API's default view (see below).

Setting the view

Set the view once in the global configuration, and it applies to the map and to every service call:

import { TomTomConfig } from '@tomtom-org/maps-sdk/core';

TomTomConfig.instance.put({ apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY', geopoliticalView: 'IN' });

Like every global option, a map or a single call can override it:

import { TomTomMap } from '@tomtom-org/maps-sdk/map';
import { reverseGeocode } from '@tomtom-org/maps-sdk/services';

const map = new TomTomMap({ mapLibre: { container: 'map' }, geopoliticalView: 'PK' });

const address = await reverseGeocode({ position: [74.31, 35.92], geopoliticalView: 'Unified' });

When no view is set

With no view, each TomTom API applies the default view for the country the request comes from, as local law there requires. Requests from India are served only the IN view, whatever view you set.

Switching the view on a map

setGeopoliticalView changes the view of a map that is already showing:

map.setGeopoliticalView('IN');

// Back to the default view for the viewer's country
map.setGeopoliticalView(undefined);

• The visible tiles reload in place: the camera, the style and every module stay as they are.
• The view persists across style changes, like the map language.
• It applies to the TomTom Orbis vector tiles, those of a custom style included.
• It changes the map only. To move services to the same view, put it in the global configuration too:

TomTomConfig.instance.put({ geopoliticalView: 'IN' });
map.setGeopoliticalView('IN');

Related guides and examples

• Global configuration
• TomTomMap
• Reverse geocoding
• Geopolitical views playground