Openmaps.fr is a free Tile Map Service based on OpenStreetMap data providing 2 maps:
All styles and code are free and Open Source (Check each specific license) on their GitHub repositories.
The service is designed for third-party use. However, there are no guarantees: the service might stop at any time, and I reserve the right to block IPs or websites in the event of excessive requests.
If you include tiles from tile.openmaps.fr in your project, you must accept and respect the Tile usage policy where you will also find the TMS URLs for those two map styles.
Since ~2011, due to increasing mass download applications targeting and hampering the OpenHikingMap server, I had to take measures in order to give priority to "browsing users". The current (since 2023) limit is that asking more than 1000 unrendered tiles or 4000 total tiles will get your connection throttled to 0.2 tiles per second or 0.5 per second respectively. I regret having to implement these restrictions, as they may affect legitimate users; unfortunately, the current server capacity is insufficient to handle such high CPU loads.
(live config should be in the config/common-for-tiles.conf file)
Current mod_tile config:
ModTileThrottlingTiles 4000 0.5
ModTileThrottlingRenders 1000 0.2
\o/ I took advantage of OVHcloud's Black Friday offers and secured a SYS-LE-5. It is an 8-core Xeon E-2288G + 3 * 2TB NVMe + 64 GB RAM for 889 € / year. This should be ideal for handling intensive rendering and high usage.
This server was kindly provided by Gplservice, the company I work for, but during 2026 it might be decommissioned and shut down:
To help finance server costs and maintain the service, please check the Funding openmaps.fr page.
Those maps are generated by Mapnik in millions of PNG 256x256 tiles; storing all of them worldwide is impractical. As per the Tile usage policy, you can download small areas for offline use, provided you stay within the download limits.
Starting from December 2025 with the new more powerful server, I hope to be able to update data every 6 months or so. The server should no longer be the limiting factor, only my available time!