Copyright & Attribution
Last updated: September 23, 2026
OpenMapTiles and OpenStreetMap data
Our maps and services are powered by OpenStreetMap data - built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world.
OpenStreetMap is open data, licensed under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) by the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF).
We regularly (typically weekly) update the maps with fresh modifications from OpenStreetMap.
Our vector tiles are using OpenMapTiles open-source project and schema.
Our maps must always visibly show attribution:
© Mappinest © OpenStreetMap contributors
Satellite
Mappinest Satellite imagery is powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Satellite imagery © AWS
Terrain and hillshade
Terrain elevation tiles and the hillshade layer in Mappinest map styles come from Mapterhorn.
Mapterhorn builds its terrain tiles from open elevation data, including Copernicus GLO-30, USGS 3DEP, and national and regional elevation datasets. Each source keeps its own license. The full list of sources and licenses is available on the Mapterhorn attribution page.
Maps that show Mappinest terrain or hillshade must also show this attribution:
© Mapterhorn
Bathymetry
Bathymetry data is derived from Natural Earth (10m physical bathymetry).
Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at naturalearthdata.com.
Landcover
- Contains datasets made by ESA and the consortium as a part of ESA Climate Change Initiative and in particular its Land Cover project as the source of the CCI-LC database.
- © ESA LandCover © ESA Climate Change Initiative - Land Cover led by UCLouvain (2017)
- Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada
- Cartographic content is derived from USGS national geospatial databases
- GLIMS and NSIDC (2005, updated 2018): Global Land Ice Measurements from Space glacier database. Compiled and made available by the international GLIMS community and the National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder CO, U.S.A. DOI:10.7265/N5V98602
Contour lines and derived DEM maps
Data includes:
- SRTM 1ARC is a product of USGS.
- ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA.
- Produced using Copernicus data and information funded by the European Union - EU-DEM layers.
Building data
Building data © OpenStreetMap contributors, Microsoft, Google, Esri Community Maps contributors.