Maps.black – Maybe the easiest way to use/host free and open maps
Maps.black – Maybe the easiest way to use/host free and open maps launched on May 9, 2025 with 7 votes, #3,816 of 7,905 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
What it does
Lazy-loading webcomponent, styles & fonts. Vector, raster, satellite & terrain tiles. Automatically localized. Automatic attribution & attribution-less alternatives. Hosted in the EU with no tracking. Open source, hosted & easily self-hostable. Data updated monthly. You are viewing this on github pages which means most data is only available for Liechtenstein, view on maps.black to see global data. <script src="https://v1.maps.black/maps.black-component.js" type="module"></script> And then where you want to show a map add: <maps-black></maps-black> Quick start (self-hosted): Upload these files to any file hosting that supports byte ranges (normal web servers, s3, cloudflare r2, etc.): And…from maps-black.github.io
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