Tile Service Operational

FAA Charts

Read-only FAA sectional, terminal, IFR, and helicopter chart tiles and product metadata.

Public audience Open access Active 55/100 agent readiness

Integration

Base URLhttps://faacharts.datasourceapi.comOpen

Documentationhttps://faacharts.datasourceapi.com/llms.txtOpen

OpenAPIhttps://faacharts.datasourceapi.com/openapi.jsonOpen

Statushttps://faacharts.datasourceapi.com/statusOpen

Repositoryhttps://github.com/coopalliance/cca-faachartsOpen

JSON metadatahttps://services.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/services/faa-chartsOpen

Agent-readable Markdownhttps://services.datasourceapi.com/services/faa-charts.mdOpen

Authentication: No authentication is required for public chart products and tiles.

Capabilities

Aviation ChartsPMTilesRaster TilesTileJSON

Provenance and freshness

• Federal Aviation Administration: Tiles derived from publicly distributed sectional, terminal area, IFR, and helicopter chart products; availability and effective cycles should be confirmed against FAA publications. Source ↗

Update cadence: FAA 56-day visual-chart release cycle.
Metadata verified: 2026-09-03

Agent readiness

Partial · 55/100 55%

The public tile service publishes OpenAPI, llms.txt, status, and direct TileJSON metadata, while remaining excluded from the MCP callable inventory.

Example queries

Sectional TileJSON

Retrieve the direct TileJSON document for the latest New York sectional chart cycle.

GET https://faacharts.datasourceapi.com/sectional-new-york/latest/tiles.json