Free, production-grade vector basemaps for the open web. Powered by OpenStreetMap and MapLibre under the Maptoolkit Community License.
Drop a style URL into MapLibre and ship. That's the whole onboarding.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/maplibre-gl/dist/maplibre-gl.css" />
<script src="https://unpkg.com/maplibre-gl/dist/maplibre-gl.js"></script>
<div id="map" style="width:100%;height:480px"></div>
<script>
const map = new maplibregl.Map({
container: 'map',
style: 'https://styles.maptoolkit.net/summer.json',
center: [11.4, 47.27],
zoom: 8,
});
</script>- Include MapLibre GL JS (CSS + script).
- Add a container element.
- Point
styleat a Maptoolkit style URL — e.g.maptoolkit,light,hiking,winter,dark,street_city. - Make sure the Maptoolkit + OpenStreetMap attribution stays visible — it's required by the Community License.
- Ship.
For style options and license terms see maptoolkit.org.
The Community License is intentionally scoped to public-facing front-end use. The following capabilities are not part of the free service and are only available under the Maptoolkit Enterprise License:
Usage
- No use behind authentication (no use for internal tools, behind paywalls, in intranets)
Service
- No SLA - community service is best-effort
- No dedicated support and dedicated project manager, community support only
- No direct developer access
No access to APIs beyond vector tiles
- Raster Tiles API
- Static Maps API
- Printmaps API
- Routing API
- Map Matching API
- Isochrone API
- Data Enhancement APIs
- Elevation API
- Weather API
- Geocoding API
If your project needs any of the above — or your organisation grows beyond EUR 1M annual revenue / 10 FTE — talk to us about Enterprise.
Every map served under the Community License must visibly attribute both Maptoolkit and OpenStreetMap — at all times, on every map, no exceptions.
Requirements:
- Maptoolkit logo — displayed clearly on the map, minimum 24px height (24pt/dp on mobile, including Retina).
- Copyright line —
© Maptoolkit © OSMin the bottom-right corner; both names must be clickable links to maptoolkit.com/copyright and openstreetmap.org/copyright respectively. - Legibility — logo and copyright must remain fully visible and unobstructed at every map size, orientation and zoom level.
- Z-index — custom UI controls or overlays must not hide or obscure the attribution.
Drop-in plugins handle this for you:
- MapLibre:
@maptoolkit/maplibre-gl-logo - Leaflet:
@maptoolkit/leaflet-logo
Maptoolkit was built on top of two communities — the open data of OpenStreetMap and the open-source ecosystem around MapLibre. Without them, the product wouldn't exist. The Community License is our way of giving something back: the same production-grade vector tiles that power our commercial customers, made available for free to small teams, hobbyists, non-profits, educators and the open-source community. Maptoolkit funds the infrastructure; the commercial Enterprise tier subsidises the free one.
No key, no sign-up. Adaptive rate limiting protects shared infrastructure: unregistered traffic gets 10 req/s sustained and 50 req/s burst (uncached requests only — 95%+ of traffic is cached at the edge). If you need more headroom, you will soon be able to register your domain or app User Agent on maptoolkit.org to raise the ceiling to 100 / 500 req/s. Still no key to manage.
Yes — if your organisation is under both EUR 1M annual consolidated revenue and 10 FTE employees. You must keep the Maptoolkit + OpenStreetMap attribution visible. Backend-only processing, bulk extraction, offline tile generation, mirroring, reselling and use in print are not permitted under the Community License — those need Enterprise (or, for printable maps, Printmaps.net).
Discussions is the place for questions, ideas, showcases and general support. Please don't open an Issue for support requests — Issues are reserved for verified code bugs. See SUPPORT.md for details.
By participating in this project you agree to abide by our Code of Conduct.