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24 alternatives to Get Your Own Maps – Pixel Perfect

GLMap is a framework for iOS developers with a simple mechanism for integrating detailed and lightweight offline maps into any application.

GLMap is a cross-platform offline maps SDK for iOS and Android developers. It provides lightweight vector maps, routing, and geocoding capabilities that work online or fully offline. Developers can integrate the… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Get Your Own Maps – Pixel Perfect launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Mapbox GL for iOS▲189

   Open source toolset for custom maps in iOS apps

   2015 · mapbox.com · its alternatives →

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   Flatmap – a new tool to make vector tiles from OpenStreetMap data fast▲158

   Flexible tool to build planet-scale vector tilesets from OpenStreetMap data fast - onthegomap/planetiler

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting▲848

   Hi HN, After 9 years of running my own OpenStreetMap tile server infra for MapHub (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11389989), I've open-sourced it and launched OpenFreeMap. You can either self-host or use our public instance. Everything is open-source, including the full production setup — there’s no 'open-core' model here. Check out the repo (https://github.com/hyperknot/openfreemap). The map data comes from OpenStreetMap. I also provide weekly full planet downloads both in Btrfs and MBTiles formats. I aim to cover the running costs of the public…

   2024 · openfreemap.org · its alternatives →

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   Manymap▲577

   Route planner for explorers with real-time collaboration

   2023 · mapmagic.app · its alternatives →

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   Maptoolkit.org - free vector map server▲24

   We built Maptoolkit.org - a free, production-grade vector maps service built on OpenStreetMap and MapLibre. Map rendering and tile hosting have historically been either expensive (Google, Mapbox) or complex to maintain yourself. (Plus: Their maps are car-focused.) Our maps feature max data zoom 15, global hill-shading, 3D terrain, contour lines, water depths, and specialized styles (like Hiking, Cycling, Winter). No sign up or API keys required. You can use it like this: ``` const map = new maplibregl.Map({ container: 'map', style: 'https://styles.maptoolkit.org/summer.json',…

   Jul 2026 · maptoolkit.org · its alternatives →

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   MapHub – A Google My Maps Alternative, Based on OpenStreetMap Data▲244

   MapHub allows you to create, share and collaborate interactive maps online.

   2016 · maphub.net · its alternatives →

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   Map Generator for Sketch▲376

   Design beautiful map interfaces with Google Maps & Mapbox

   2017 · codeload.github.com · its alternatives →

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   Bike route planner that follows almost only official bike trails▲279

   Hey guys, I built a route planner that is mostly focused on bike touring and using existing bike infrastructure. For each request you're shown what bike tracks/trails your route uses and can further explore them by showing them on map or going to the official trail route. The main idea for the app is to have a friendly and easy to use planner that would make heavy use of official bike trails data (mainly from OpenStreetMap) and make it easy to plan a longer trip using the best possible bike routes out there. Currently the app only works for the Euro region but I'm planning to add North…

   2024 · trailimap.com · its alternatives →

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   GISCARTA▲175

   Simple and powerful tool to work with maps

   2024 · giscarta.com · its alternatives →

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    BlitzWizMap▲183

    Create Your Map App in Minutes—No Code, Just a CSV file

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Valhalla, an open source routing engine▲147

    2015 · mapzen.com · its alternatives →

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    Dungeon Map Doodler Beta - Free online map drawing tool▲157

    This is a D&D map making tool I've been working on for a while now, but I just added some new features to the beta that I think HN users might find neat. When building a world map, you can use "Dynamic Brushes" to draw organic looking terrain. This is achieved entirely with svg filters and javascript canvas, no fancy libraries or anything. This came with a pretty large rewrite of some of the underlying code, so I'm sure there's a number of bugs I haven't come across, but I'd love to hear your opinions on it!

    2023 · dungeonmapdoodler.com · its alternatives →

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    OpenStreetMap▲63

    Hey HN, jvaclavik here from OpenClimbing team! We are thrilled to release version 2.0 of our fully opensource/opendata climbing guide. Based on OpenStreetMap for map-data and Wikimedia Commons for images, we created a (hopefully) user-friendly app which completely uses these open databases, thus contributing data back to commons. We designed a simple and powerful notation for drawing climbing routes directly over the Wikimedia pictures: - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikimedia_commons:pa... Check out the release article for a ton of new features, or go…

    2014 · openstreetmap.org · its alternatives →

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    Free GeoJSON editor to visualize, download or convert into many formats▲214

    Revolutionize GIS data management with Geoman for Leaflet, MapLibre, and Mapbox. Add drawing, editing, cutting, splitting, snapping, measuring, and more directly on the map.

    2020 · geoman.io · its alternatives →

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    TiltMaps▲175

    Create map posters of your favorite places & memories.

    2017 · tiltmaps.com · its alternatives →

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    Dungeon Map Doodler – Free online map drawing tool▲155

    Free to use drawing tool for creating RPG maps

    2020 · dungeonmapdoodler.com · its alternatives →

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    Maptiks▲66

    Analytics for web map applications

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Go-Highway – Portable SIMD for Go▲29

    Go 1.26 adds native SIMD via GOEXPERIMENT=simd. This library provides a portability layer so the same code runs on AVX2, AVX-512, or falls back to scalar. Inspired by Google's Highway C++ library. Includes vectorized math (exp, log, sin, tanh, sigmoid, erf) since those come up a lot in ML/scientific code and the stdlib doesn't have SIMD versions. algo.SigmoidTransform(input, output) Requires go1.26rc1. Feedback welcome.

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Krata Maps▲89

    Create, Edit and Share Custom GeoJSON Maps

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    AirMapView – An Android Library for Maps Without Google Play Services▲45

    A view abstraction to provide a map user interface with various underlying map providers - airbnb/AirMapView

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Wanderlog for iOS and Android▲131

    Mobile-first collaborative travel planner and mapper

    2020 · wanderlog.com · its alternatives →

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    OSM2VectorTiles – Offline map of the entire world▲6

    Design and host maps with OpenStreetMap vector tiles and open-source tools. Maps are compatible with Leaflet, MapLibre GL SDKs, GIS, WMTS/WMS, XYZ map tiles, etc.

    2015 · osm2vectortiles.org · its alternatives →

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    FATMAP▲88

    Global 3D map and adventure guidebook for the outdoors!

    2018 · strava.com · its alternatives →

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    ThreeMap – 3D map visualizations and stuff▲17

    Library for high-quality vector maps built with ThreeJS

    2018 · areknawo.github.io · its alternatives →

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