How to publish your map

After customizing a map in Map Designer, you need to save and publish your edits. This page explains what it means and how to do it.

Publish a new map

  1. When you want to save your editing progress, click Save (top right). This saves the changes in your MapTiler account. If you’re editing one of the MapTiler maps, you’ll be prompted to name your copy of the map.

Save map edits

  1. Continue editing your map, or proceed to Publish (top right). Publishing means that the map is ready to be shared with the world, but no worries – it’s not actually visible to anyone unless you take further steps to use the map on a website or in your app.

  2. Check a preview comparing the map look before and after, and confirm publishing. You’ll get a notification that this will affect any web apps that use this map. A new map that you’ve just created isn’t used anywhere, so you can safely ignore this note.

Publish map edits

Your new map is now added in section My maps in your MapTiler account.

Update an existing map

If you’re publishing updates of an existing custom map, keep in mind that the changes you have made may take up to 1-2 hours to propagate to all of your customers’ map styles due to caching, various browser types, or network issues. We recommend publishing changes to your map styles outside peak usage periods.

Next steps

Once published, your map is available for use just like ready-made MapTiler maps. You can use it on a website, in a mobile app, via WMTS service, in a GIS app, and in many other ways. 👉 Learn how to use your map