Basemap Tiling

Tile servers, tile generators, and schemas that power the MapLibre ecosystem. Build, serve, and optimize vector and raster tiles at any scale.

Martin

Blazing fast tile server

Martin is a tile server able to generate and serve vector tiles on the fly from PostGIS databases, MBTiles, and PMTiles archives.

Rust

TileServer GL

Vector and raster tile server

Serve vector and raster map tiles from MBTiles files with MapLibre GL Native for server-side rendering of raster tiles.

JS / TS

tippecanoe

Build vector tilesets from GeoJSON

Command-line tool for building vector tilesets from large collections of GeoJSON features. Automatically chooses detail levels and simplification for each zoom.

C++

Planetiler

Fast planet-scale vector tile generation

Flexible Java tool for building planet-scale vector tilesets. Generates a full planet MBTiles file in under an hour on a single machine.

Java

OpenMapTiles

Open-source map tiles schema and tools

Open-source vector tile schema and toolchain for generating map tiles from OpenStreetMap data. The de facto standard schema used by many MapLibre deployments.

Other

chiitiler

Lightweight serverless tile server

A lightweight alternative to TileServer GL for serverless raster tile rendering using MapLibre GL JS.

JS / TS

Versatiles

Free and open tile server stack

A completely free and open-source tile server stack with implementations in Node.js and Rust, serving vector tiles per the Shortbread specification.

Rust JS / TS

MapLibre Tiles

Next-generation vector tile format

A next-generation vector tile format designed to replace MVT. Offers up to 6x better compression, faster decoding, and support for 3D coordinates and complex data types.

Java JS / TS C+++1 more

PMTiles

Single-file tile archive protocol

Cloud-optimized single-file archive format for tilesets. The JavaScript library adds a custom protocol to MapLibre GL JS for direct PMTiles consumption.

JS / TS

Tile Hosting & Cloud Generation

Cloud platforms for uploading your own geodata, generating tilesets, and serving tiles at scale — so you don't have to run your own infrastructure.

MapTiler Cloud

Upload your own geodata and generate vector tilesets in the cloud. Includes tile hosting, a visual style editor, and a generous free tier.

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Protomaps

Host PMTiles directly from S3, Cloudflare R2, or any cloud storage. No tile server needed — tiles are served via HTTP range requests.

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