Bee Maps (Hivemapper)

1. API v1.3.0: base URL; Basic and apiKey query auth; endpoints /latest/poly (min_week, headings, catalog, crossjoin), /imagery/poly (week), /map-data, /mapFeatures/poly, /aievents/search, /aievents/{id}, /requestVideo POST/GET/DELETE with constraints, idempotencyKey and statuses, /history, /devices (no auth), POST /mcp; frame GNSS metrics (gdop, hdop, pdop, eph, cno); max 5 sq km; 36% of world roads; per-view billing beemaps.com
2. OpenAPI spec: BasicAuth and ApiKeyQuery schemes (query key for burst endpoints); /burst/create body (Point with radius, credits); 429 default 100 req/min beemaps.com
3. Burst request and response schema, statuses active/expired/refunded/completed; AI event types; detection classes; rate limits 100/min default and 10/min burst creation; 402 insufficient credits beemaps.com
4. Data API guide: freshness 'days to weeks old', 'flexible licensing: build derived datasets from imagery', detections US/EU/UK, Burst goes live in the Bee App with push notifications, timing hours urban / days rural, key from Developers > API Key, MCP server URL with apiKey, agent constraints (5 sq km, check balance, URLs expire), Burst workflow beemaps.com
5. Data API prices: $0.005 per image, $6 per AI event video, $3 per 1,000 detections, $1 per burst location; no upfront commitments; Edge AI prices beemaps.com
6. Same price list; imagery global, road detections US/EU/UK, Burst global (network-dependent) and pay-on-success with polling or webhooks; 100+ countries; 37% of roads; 750M km; example path /imagery/latest/poly beemaps.com
7. Headline counters (754M total km, 37% global road coverage, 22M unique km); transition to USDC rewards beemaps.com
8. From August 2026 USDC (funded by Bee Maps, via Circle Wallet) is the default reward and HONEY rewards are removed from the Bee App; Bee Maps terminated its services agreement with the Hivemapper Foundation; email sign-in default beemaps.com
9. Data Products Terms of Service: right to use Data Products only with the customer's Implementations; no transfer, distribution, resale, lease or (sub)licensing; no competing products or benchmarking; anti-scraping duty; Bee Maps exclusively owns the Data Products; prepaid balance by credit card or written contract; price changes after 14 days beemaps.com
10. Bee Terms of Service: Hivemapper, Inc. (dba Bee Maps) owns data collected from Bee devices with the right to use, license, distribute or sell it; prohibition on robots and scraping of the Service beemaps.com
11. Prepaid API balance, Add Funds $5 to $1,000 through Stripe, funds available immediately with no approval, $20 free credits with no card required beemaps.com
12. Billing docs: 'Checkout with Stripe' to add funds; API calls deducted from the balance automatically beemaps.com
13. Privacy by design: random three-word usernames, trip trimming, privacy zones, on-device blurring of faces, bodies, vehicles and licence plates beemaps.com
14. Bee has a dual-band (L1/L5) GNSS module with embedded security; IMU data in imagery metadata; Bursts defined by area and reward beemaps.com
15. Network verification: approved Open Camera devices, vision-based consensus at the H3 hex level against AI-generated imagery and replay, device-diversity weighting, new devices start with low trust, low-traffic areas may lack consensus docs.hivemapper.com
16. MCP endpoint is live and asks for an API key via ?apiKey= or X-API-Key header (401 to an unauthenticated POST, no WWW-Authenticate) beemaps.com
17. Approved Open Camera devices; new devices start with low trust; vision-based consensus docs.hivemapper.com

About. Dashcam street-level imagery network run by Hivemapper, Inc. (dba Bee Maps). Contributors drive with Bee cameras and, since August 2026, are paid by default in USDC funded by Bee Maps. Data is sold through the Bee Maps Data API: imagery, ML-detected road features, AI event videos, and on-demand collection (Burst and video requests) for a chosen location.

Price. Public rate card: imagery $0.005 per image; AI event videos $6 per video; road detections $3 per 1,000 detections; Burst $1 per location, paid only when the location is mapped. The price of a /requestVideo order is not published. Bee Edge AI is priced separately ($15/device/month own devices; $0.02/km network devices). Prepaid API balance; add funds $5 to $1,000 through Stripe checkout; new accounts get $20 free credits with no card required. Price increases take effect 14 days after posting.

Coverage. Provider states 754M total km mapped, 22M unique km and 37% of world roads (beemaps.com counters, self-reported; the API reference says 36%). Density per region is not published in the pages read. Max query area 5 sq km per request. 'Global' (areas *) means no country limit is applied, but the provider claims '100+ countries', not every country.

Timing. Data API guide: Burst 'coverage timing depends on local driver density — urban areas often see results within hours, while rural areas may take days.'

Licence. The Data Products Terms of Service (Q4 2025) grant a non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable right to use the Bee Maps Data Products only in connection with the customer's own Implementations (products that interoperate with the APIs). The customer may not transfer, distribute, resell, lease or (sub)license the Services or Data Products, use them to build a competing product or for benchmarking, and must protect them from scraping. Bee Maps and its licensors exclusively own all rights in the Data Products. The terms do not mention AI or ML training; the docs market AI event videos and imagery for model training; neither is licence text. The terms also bar creating derivative works of the Data Products, so do not read marketing talk of derived datasets as a right.