Navigating maps and workspaces

Workspaces and API tokens

Workspaces are the place where users in the same organization collaborate and share maps. A user may form part of several workspaces but, at the very least, always forms part of one.

API tokens are created per-workspace. If you wish to interact with several workspaces via the Felt API, you must create a different API token for each one.

Working with maps

Creating a new map

Creating a new map is as simple as making a POST request to the maps endpoint.

curl

# Your API token should look like this:
# FELT_API_TOKEN="felt_pat_ABCDEFUDQPAGGNBmX40YNhkCRvvLI3f8/BCwD/g8"
FELT_API_TOKEN="<YOUR_API_TOKEN>"

curl -L \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${FELT_API_TOKEN}" \
  "https://felt.com/api/v2/maps" \
  -d '{"title": "My newly created map"}'

Python

import requests

# Your API token should look like this:
# api_token = "felt_pat_ABCDEFUDQPAGGNBmX40YNhkCRvvLI3f8/BCwD/g8"
api_token = "<YOUR_API_TOKEN>"

r = requests.post(
  "http://felt.com/api/v2/maps",
  json={"title": "My newly created map"},
  headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {api_token}"}
)
assert r.ok
map_id = r.json()["id"]

print(r.json())

felt-python

import os

from felt_python import create_map

# Setting your API token as an env variable can save
# you from repeating it in every function call
os.environ["FELT_API_TOKEN"] = "<YOUR_API_TOKEN>"

response = create_map(
    title="My newly created map",
    lat=40,
    lon=-3,
    public_access="private",
)
map_id = response["id"]

Notice in the response the "id" property. Every map has a unique ID, which is also a part of the map's URL. Let's take note of it for future API calls.

Also part of the response is a "url" property, which is the URL to your newly-created map.

Getting a map's details

Performing a GET request to a map URL will give you useful information about that map, including title, URL, layers, thumbnail URL, creation and visited timestamps.

curl

curl -L \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${FELT_API_TOKEN}" \
  "https://felt.com/api/v2/maps/${MAP_ID}"

Python

r = requests.get(
  f"http://felt.com/api/v2/maps/{map_id}",
  headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {api_token}"}
)
assert r.ok
print(r.json())

felt-python

from felt_python import get_map_details

get_map_details(map_id)

Deleting a map

To remove a map from your workspace, simply perform a DELETE request to the map's URL:

curl

curl -L \
  -X DELETE \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${FELT_API_TOKEN}" \
  "https://felt.com/api/v2/maps/${MAP_ID}"

Python

r = requests.delete(
  f"http://felt.com/api/v2/maps/{map_id}",
  headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {api_token}"}
)
assert r.ok

felt-python

from felt_python import delete_map

delete_map(map_id)