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Remote profile

profile is a composition preset. It is not a thirteenth style, a third mode, or a theme. It names default overlays and hides buildings so customer data stays visually dominant.

import { Unmap } from "@unmap/sdk";
 
const unmap = new Unmap({
  key: "um_live_...",
  container: "map",
  style: "muted",
  profile: "remote",
  center: [-114.3718, 62.454],
  zoom: 6,
});
live result
the code that produced it
import { Unmap } from "@unmap/sdk";

const unmap = new Unmap({
  key: "um_live_...",
  container: "map",
  style: "muted",
  profile: "remote",
  center: [-114.3718, 62.454],
  zoom: 6,
});

?profile=remote on /styles/{style}.json expands to the same overlay set. Prefer muted. Unknown profile values are a 400. When both profile and overlays= are set, explicit overlays win: the profile list is replaced, not merged.

A key without the remote add-on still gets the basemap and the core layers in the preset (parks, aboriginal-lands). remote.airports is 403 addon_required when asked for explicitly. survey.nts still needs legal-land. profile does not change geocode or search routing.

Catalog

Remote 0.2 adds remote.airports. Parks, water, rail, legislative aboriginal lands, and NTS already exist: the profile composes them. It does not duplicate them.

idCoverageLicence
remote.airportsTransport Canada NAV CANADA ANS airports (towers and flight service stations). Not remote airstrips. Overlay tiles live on R2 from the public shapefile.OGL-Canada

Attribution: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.

GET /layers is the machine-readable source. Incomplete coverage is never hidden. remote.airports is overlay-only. It is not identify-capable.

Not in this slice

HeldWhy
Winter / ice / seasonal road statusNo licensed redistribution-ready extract in Township Canada or as a national public product. Provincial layers are operational dates. The Salles & Mullan 2022–23 compilation includes First Nations community points (OCAP® / partnership); not imported
Remote airstrips / heliports / water basesThe public extract is ANS airports only. OSM + CGNDB + transport.airport already search
Remote community points beyond coreOSM / CGNDB already search. Community-stewarded data is OCAP® / partnership
FPS surveyToo large for the geocode container; not a tile overlay here
Remote routingThe Canada graph does not model winter open/closed. use_highways is OSM motorway preference, not seasonal status. See Routing API

remote.roads was retired on 2026-09-15. It was the National Road Network's all-season network, which never carried the winter or ice road status this profile actually wants, and the basemap already draws roads to z15 with kind, ref, network and name:fr where the overlay stopped at z12. Use the basemap's own roads layer. ?overlays=remote.roads still returns a working style with that overlay dropped; GET /layers/remote.roads answers 410.

What is still stubbed

  • Winter / ice / seasonal geometries stay held. The remote.airports archive is on R2.
  • With remote.roads retired, this profile's own layer is remote.airports alone: 93 NAV CANADA towered and flight-service airports, which are the busy ones rather than the remote strips the name suggests. The rest of the preset is core.

See Layers for the catalog contract and Remote map for a live example.