What's the significance of the zoom parameter in the DroneDeploy Tiles API?

Question

I'm creating a DroneDeploy app to allow users to save a DroneDeploy tile URL schema (https://public-tiles.dronedeploy.com/1492897911_ADMININSPIRE_ortho_iti/{z}/{x}/{y}.png?Policy=a&Signature=b&Key-Pair-Id=c) for use in other applications. I see that the Tiles API accepts a zoom parameter. As far as I can tell the URL schema I get in return doesn't change if I change the zoom parameter, so I'm just wondering what the purpose of this parameter is.

Answer 1

In the past we used the zoom parameter in the tile API to return an array of tiles at the given zoom level. We've decided later to move that iterator into a separate iterator function found here.

So in answer to your question, the zoom parameter does not do anything. The tile API only returns the tile template. I've opened up a PR on our side to remove the zoom parameter and will update the docs as soon as that gets merged.

Hope that helps.