diff --git a/src/app/scene.js b/src/app/scene.js
index 65e40cd7e..b98a28914 100644
--- a/src/app/scene.js
+++ b/src/app/scene.js
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import { describeError } from './errors.js';
 export async function createApplicationScene({
   requestServices,
   googleApiKey,
+  googleTokens = null,
   cesiumToken,
   credits,
   MapController = MapStackController,
@@ -59,11 +60,12 @@ export async function createApplicationScene({
   registerDataCredits(viewer, credits);
   configureCreditKeyboardAccess(document);
   loaderStatus.textContent =
-    googleApiKey || cesiumToken
+    googleApiKey || googleTokens || cesiumToken
       ? 'Loading Google 3D Tiles...'
       : 'Loading the keyless globe...';
   const photoreal = await loadPhotorealisticTileset(Cesium, {
     googleApiKey,
+    googleTokens,
     cesiumToken,
   });
   const tileset = photoreal.tileset;
diff --git a/src/mapStartup.test.mjs b/src/mapStartup.test.mjs
index 521c1842b..7921fc2f6 100644
--- a/src/mapStartup.test.mjs
+++ b/src/mapStartup.test.mjs
@@ -15,7 +15,16 @@ function fakeCesium(outcomes = []) {
   return {
     calls,
     Ion: { defaultAccessToken: undefined },
-    GoogleMaps: { defaultApiKey: undefined },
+    GoogleMaps: {
+      defaultApiKey: undefined,
+      mapTilesApiEndpoint: 'https://tile.googleapis.com/',
+      getDefaultCredit: () => undefined,
+    },
+    Resource: class {
+      constructor(options) {
+        Object.assign(this, options);
+      }
+    },
     async createGooglePhotorealistic3DTileset(options) {
       calls.push({ options, googleKey: options.key });
       return next();
@@ -29,6 +38,7 @@ function fakeCesium(outcomes = []) {
       async fromUrl(resource, options) {
         calls.push({
           options,
+          resource,
           ionToken: resource.accessToken,
           assetId: resource.assetId,
         });
@@ -140,3 +150,69 @@ test('independent source configurations never mutate shared SDK credentials', as
   assert.equal(Cesium.Ion.defaultAccessToken, 'untouched-ion');
   assert.equal(Cesium.GoogleMaps.defaultApiKey, 'untouched-google');
 });
+
+function tokenSource(...issued) {
+  const requests = [];
+  return {
+    requests,
+    async token(options = {}) {
+      requests.push(options);
+      return issued.shift() ?? null;
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+test('without a key, server tokens load Google 3D directly', async () => {
+  const tileset = { id: 'token' };
+  const Cesium = fakeCesium([tileset]);
+  const result = await loadPhotorealisticTileset(Cesium, {
+    googleTokens: tokenSource('short-lived'),
+    cesiumToken: 'ion-secret',
+  });
+  assert.equal(result.tileset, tileset);
+  assert.equal(result.route, 'google-token');
+  const { resource, options } = Cesium.calls[0];
+  assert.equal(
+    resource.url,
+    'https://tile.googleapis.com/v1/3dtiles/root.json',
+  );
+  assert.equal(resource.headers.Authorization, 'Bearer short-lived');
+  assert.equal(resource.queryParameters, undefined);
+  assert.equal(options.enableCollision, true);
+});
+
+test('a tile refused for an expired token retries once with a renewed one', async () => {
+  const Cesium = fakeCesium([{ id: 'token' }]);
+  const tokens = tokenSource('first', 'second');
+  await loadPhotorealisticTileset(Cesium, { googleTokens: tokens });
+  const { resource } = Cesium.calls[0];
+  const tile = { headers: { ...resource.headers } };
+  assert.equal(await resource.retryCallback(tile, { statusCode: 401 }), true);
+  assert.equal(tile.headers.Authorization, 'Bearer second');
+  assert.deepEqual(tokens.requests.at(-1), { replacing: 'first' });
+  assert.equal(resource.retryAttempts, 1);
+  assert.equal(await resource.retryCallback(tile, { statusCode: 500 }), false);
+});
+
+test('a key takes precedence over server tokens', async () => {
+  const Cesium = fakeCesium([{ id: 'direct' }]);
+  const tokens = tokenSource('short-lived');
+  const result = await loadPhotorealisticTileset(Cesium, {
+    googleApiKey: 'google-secret',
+    googleTokens: tokens,
+  });
+  assert.equal(result.route, 'google-direct');
+  assert.equal(tokens.requests.length, 0);
+});
+
+test('a server without tokens falls back to ion', async () => {
+  const tileset = { id: 'ion' };
+  const Cesium = fakeCesium([tileset]);
+  const result = await loadPhotorealisticTileset(Cesium, {
+    googleTokens: tokenSource(),
+    cesiumToken: 'ion-secret',
+  });
+  assert.equal(result.route, 'google-ion');
+  assert.equal(result.errors.length, 1);
+  assert.equal(Cesium.calls.length, 1);
+});
diff --git a/src/maps/google3d.js b/src/maps/google3d.js
index bb45aa800..aab45ea35 100644
--- a/src/maps/google3d.js
+++ b/src/maps/google3d.js
@@ -16,30 +16,43 @@ export function selectMapStartupRoute({
 
 /**
  * Load Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles through direct Google access when
- * configured, otherwise through Cesium ion's hosted Google asset. If the
- * direct request fails and an ion token is available, ion is the recovery path.
+ * configured, otherwise through Cesium ion's hosted Google asset. Direct
+ * access uses a browser key, or else short-lived tokens from the app's
+ * server (see googleTokens.js). If direct access fails and an ion token is
+ * available, ion is the recovery path.
  *
  * @param {object} Cesium
- * @param {{googleApiKey?: string, cesiumToken?: string}} credentials
- * @returns {Promise<{tileset: object|null, route: 'google-direct'|'google-ion'|'osm', errors: Error[]}>}
+ * @param {{googleApiKey?: string, cesiumToken?: string, googleTokens?: {token: Function}|null}} credentials
+ * @returns {Promise<{tileset: object|null, route: 'google-direct'|'google-token'|'google-ion'|'osm', errors: Error[]}>}
  */
 export async function loadPhotorealisticTileset(
   Cesium,
-  { googleApiKey = '', cesiumToken = '' } = {},
+  { googleApiKey = '', cesiumToken = '', googleTokens = null } = {},
 ) {
   const googleKey = clean(googleApiKey);
   const ionToken = clean(cesiumToken);
   const errors = [];
 
   const attempts = [];
-  if (googleKey) attempts.push({ route: 'google-direct', googleKey });
-  if (ionToken) attempts.push({ route: 'google-ion', googleKey: undefined });
+  if (googleKey)
+    attempts.push({
+      route: 'google-direct',
+      create: () => createGoogleDirectTileset(Cesium, googleKey),
+    });
+  else if (googleTokens)
+    attempts.push({
+      route: 'google-token',
+      create: () => createGoogleTokenTileset(Cesium, googleTokens),
+    });
+  if (ionToken)
+    attempts.push({
+      route: 'google-ion',
+      create: () => createGoogleIonTileset(Cesium, ionToken),
+    });
 
   for (const attempt of attempts) {
     try {
-      const tileset = attempt.googleKey
-        ? await createGoogleDirectTileset(Cesium, attempt.googleKey)
-        : await createGoogleIonTileset(Cesium, ionToken);
+      const tileset = await attempt.create();
       return { tileset, route: attempt.route, errors };
     } catch (error) {
       errors.push(error instanceof Error ? error : new Error(String(error)));
@@ -60,6 +73,39 @@ export function createGoogleDirectTileset(Cesium, key) {
   );
 }
 
+/**
+ * Google 3D with short-lived tokens instead of a key. Every tile request
+ * carries the token as a header; a tile refused for an expired token gets
+ * the renewed one and is tried once more.
+ */
+export async function createGoogleTokenTileset(Cesium, tokens) {
+  const token = await tokens.token();
+  if (!token) throw new Error('Google 3D tokens are not offered');
+  const credit = Cesium.GoogleMaps.getDefaultCredit?.();
+  const resource = new Cesium.Resource({
+    url: `${Cesium.GoogleMaps.mapTilesApiEndpoint}v1/3dtiles/root.json`,
+    headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${token}` },
+    credits: credit ? [credit] : undefined,
+    retryAttempts: 1,
+    async retryCallback(failed, error) {
+      if (![401, 403].includes(error?.statusCode)) return false;
+      const used = failed.headers.Authorization?.replace(/^Bearer /, '');
+      const renewed = await tokens.token({ replacing: used });
+      if (!renewed || renewed === used) return false;
+      failed.headers.Authorization = `Bearer ${renewed}`;
+      return true;
+    },
+  });
+  // The settings Cesium's Google helper applies to the key route.
+  return Cesium.Cesium3DTileset.fromUrl(resource, {
+    cacheBytes: 1536 * 1024 * 1024,
+    maximumCacheOverflowBytes: 1024 * 1024 * 1024,
+    enableCollision: true,
+    // Tiles keep drawing their own texture while draped weather loads.
+    asynchronouslyLoadImagery: true,
+  });
+}
+
 export async function createGoogleIonTileset(
   Cesium,
   accessToken,
diff --git a/src/maps/googleTokens.js b/src/maps/googleTokens.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7896c8f5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/maps/googleTokens.js
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+/**
+ * Short-lived Google access tokens the app's server may offer in place of a
+ * browser key. A server that offers them answers GET GOOGLE_TOKEN_PATH with
+ * `{ accessToken, expiresAt }` (expiresAt in epoch milliseconds); any other
+ * answer means it does not, and the app carries on without them.
+ */
+export const GOOGLE_TOKEN_PATH = '/api/google/tiles-token';
+
+/** Renew a token this long before it expires. */
+const RENEW_EARLY_MS = 60_000;
+
+function parseToken(data, now) {
+  const accessToken = data?.accessToken;
+  const expiresAt = Number(data?.expiresAt);
+  if (typeof accessToken !== 'string' || accessToken.length === 0) return null;
+  if (!Number.isFinite(expiresAt) || expiresAt <= now) return null;
+  return { accessToken, expiresAt };
+}
+
+/**
+ * A source of tokens from the app's server. `token()` resolves the current
+ * token, renewing it shortly before it expires; `token({ replacing })`
+ * renews only if `replacing` is still the current token, so many tile
+ * requests rejected for the same expired token renew it once. Resolves null
+ * when the server does not offer tokens.
+ */
+export function createGoogleTokenSource({
+  fetchImpl = (...args) => fetch(...args),
+  url = GOOGLE_TOKEN_PATH,
+  now = () => Date.now(),
+} = {}) {
+  let current = null;
+  let pending = null;
+
+  async function request() {
+    try {
+      const response = await fetchImpl(url, {
+        headers: { Accept: 'application/json' },
+        cache: 'no-store',
+      });
+      if (!response.ok) return null;
+      return parseToken(await response.json(), now());
+    } catch {
+      return null;
+    }
+  }
+
+  return {
+    async token({ replacing } = {}) {
+      const usable =
+        current &&
+        current.expiresAt - RENEW_EARLY_MS > now() &&
+        (replacing === undefined || current.accessToken !== replacing);
+      if (usable) return current.accessToken;
+      pending ??= request().finally(() => {
+        pending = null;
+      });
+      current = await pending;
+      return current?.accessToken ?? null;
+    },
+  };
+}
diff --git a/src/maps/googleTokens.test.mjs b/src/maps/googleTokens.test.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..87b7cf8dc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/maps/googleTokens.test.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+import test from 'node:test';
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import { createGoogleTokenSource, GOOGLE_TOKEN_PATH } from './googleTokens.js';
+
+function server(answers) {
+  const calls = [];
+  return {
+    calls,
+    fetchImpl: async (url) => {
+      calls.push(url);
+      const answer = answers.shift();
+      if (answer instanceof Error) throw answer;
+      return answer;
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+const offer = (accessToken, expiresAt) =>
+  Response.json({ accessToken, expiresAt });
+
+test('a token is reused until shortly before it expires', async () => {
+  let now = 1_000_000;
+  const { calls, fetchImpl } = server([
+    offer('first', now + 900_000),
+    offer('second', now + 1_800_000),
+  ]);
+  const tokens = createGoogleTokenSource({ fetchImpl, now: () => now });
+  assert.equal(await tokens.token(), 'first');
+  assert.equal(await tokens.token(), 'first');
+  assert.deepEqual(calls, [GOOGLE_TOKEN_PATH]);
+  now += 850_000;
+  assert.equal(await tokens.token(), 'second');
+  assert.equal(calls.length, 2);
+});
+
+test('requests refused for the same token renew it once', async () => {
+  const now = 1_000_000;
+  const { calls, fetchImpl } = server([
+    offer('first', now + 900_000),
+    offer('second', now + 900_000),
+  ]);
+  const tokens = createGoogleTokenSource({ fetchImpl, now: () => now });
+  await tokens.token();
+  const renewed = await Promise.all([
+    tokens.token({ replacing: 'first' }),
+    tokens.token({ replacing: 'first' }),
+  ]);
+  assert.deepEqual(renewed, ['second', 'second']);
+  assert.equal(await tokens.token({ replacing: 'first' }), 'second');
+  assert.equal(calls.length, 2);
+});
+
+test('a server that does not offer tokens yields none', async () => {
+  for (const answer of [
+    new Response('Not found', { status: 404 }),
+    new Response('<!doctype html>', { status: 200 }),
+    Response.json({ accessToken: '', expiresAt: Date.now() + 60_000 }),
+    Response.json({ accessToken: 'stale', expiresAt: 1 }),
+    new TypeError('offline'),
+  ]) {
+    const { fetchImpl } = server([answer]);
+    assert.equal(await createGoogleTokenSource({ fetchImpl }).token(), null);
+  }
+});
diff --git a/src/standalone/application.js b/src/standalone/application.js
index cbdf9cb7f..5dd1b9641 100644
--- a/src/standalone/application.js
+++ b/src/standalone/application.js
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { createStandaloneScene } from './scene.js';
 import { createStandaloneControls } from './controls.js';
 import { createStandaloneData } from './data.js';
 import { createStandaloneTools } from './tools.js';
+import { createGoogleTokenSource } from '../maps/googleTokens.js';
 
 // The existing controls and layer catalog contain page-scoped state.
 let constructed = false;
@@ -39,6 +40,9 @@ export function createStandaloneApplication({
       const scene = await createStandaloneScene({
         ...context,
         googleApiKey,
+        // Without a key, Google 3D can still load with tokens from the
+        // app's server when it offers them.
+        googleTokens: googleApiKey ? null : createGoogleTokenSource(),
         cesiumToken,
         loaderStatus,
       });