Design your map

Need a map with custom look? No problem—our intuitive no-code design editor Customize makes that possible. You can define every single aspect of a map’s visual style: colors, icons, fonts, transparency, shading, highlighting, language of labels, and much more.

Customize one of our maps

MapTiler maps are professionally crafted by our cartographers to be aesthetically pleasing, visually fit their purpose, and work well at all zoom levels. This is quite tricky to do from scratch, which is why selecting one of our maps as a base is the easiest way to start. 👉 First steps in map design

Note that map design is about styling elements on the map, such as lines or icons, which is only possible on maps that use vector tiles. Maps that only consist of raster tiles (standard images) are not customizable. Likewise, if you need to create a map using your own imagery, you won't be "designing" the map but rather adding your images on top of an existing map as an overlay.

Use maps in dark mode

We have distinctive light and dark map modes, so you can simply use them via presets in our SDK JS without having to design them first. 👉 How to use the dark mode

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