Accessing styled tiles on your map

We can use Mapbox services to fetch specific tiles from the service. To do so, we will use the GET HTTP verb to request the tile from Mapbox servers.

The advantage with REST GET requests is that you don't even need special tools or knowledge to call them.

I will present four methods that do not require coding, are easy to use, and will help us get through the chapter.

How to do it…

Here are the four ways:

• Copy and paste the URL in your browser: Yes, as simple as that! You can simply paste the URL in the web browser, and it will automatically perform the request for you. Although, it's not generally recommended to do it this way; I highly recommend that you use a specialized tool for this task from the ones mentioned in the following points.
• Use a third-party online tool: You can also use a third-party online tool, such as https://www.hurl.it/, to do REST calls.
• Use a browser extension: For Chrome, I suggest PostMan, which can be found at https...