Beautiful travel maps, ready for developers
Try our cartographer-designed map styles, created specifically for travel, tourism, and outdoor apps.
They are fast to set up, globally accurate, and updated daily.
We have five production-ready styles: OpenCycleMap, Transport, Outdoors, Landscape, and Atlas.
Free plan available - no payment card required
Travel and tourism maps for web apps
Designed to work with your existing tech stack, our maps are quick to set up and dependable.
Seamless travel experiences for your customers
All our travel and outdoor map styles are carefully designed to support trip planning and navigation, wherever your customers travel.
- Global coverage with accurate cartography
- Labels in local languages and English
- Curated points of interest for travellers
- Unnecessary details removed
Use our map styles for trip planning apps, city visitor apps, travel platforms and backcountry exploration apps.
Production-ready travel and outdoor map styles
Save hours of styling and maintenance with our ready-to-go travel styles.
- Choose a hand-curated map style as your base layer
- Configure your map with an API key
- Overlay your own routes, POIs and data
- Works worldwide, on any device
“I really appreciate that you do things in a way that is trying to make my life easier.”
Customer stories
NATS and Thunderforest: Paul Gee
“Thunderforest has consistently delivered a reliable service with minimal overhead or maintenance, unlike other providers.
Thunderforest’s flexibility and willingness to support us during the initial launch was invaluable.
Despite exploring other mapping source providers, none demonstrated the same level of commitment to helping us achieve our objectives.”
Online maps customised for travellers and explorers
Our maps can be used in any country, on any device.
Each map style is optimised for a different use case:
- OpenCycleMap: The classic cycle map, including everything a cyclist needs to know from route types type to water stops.
- Transport (Dark and Standard): A specialist map style showing everything from train routes to chair lifts worldwide.
- Outdoors: Details every kind of route and point of interest for tourists and travellers.
- Landscape: A clean, stylish map highlighting terrain and topography, ideal for explorers.
- Atlas: Our most minimal style, excellent for overlaying information.
Fair pricing, zero maintenance
Pricing
We offer fair, flexible pricing that scales with your company. Choose a fixed-fee pricing model with no surge charges. Upgrade or downgrade at any time.
Maintenance
Our product is reliable. It just works, which our customers appreciate.
- We aim for 100% availability, with no scheduled outages or maintenance periods
- We use the latest map data from OpenStreetMap, updated every few hours
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Need a specialised map?
If your project needs something beyond our ready-made styles, we offer a cost-effective Custom Cartography service. You’ll work directly with a cartographer to design a map tailored to your exact requirements.
We designed a custom winter map for FCMQ to help snowmobilers plan routes and navigate safely across Quebec.