Landscape: Background maps for nature apps

A simple, elegant map style for nature or outdoor apps and visualizations, that highlights your data on top.

MapTiler image landscape-header.webp

Minimalistic style

Clean and clear maps that let your routes and locations be seen in a beautiful context.

Dark mode

Switch to dark mode or vivid styles to match your interface design or user preferences.

Cartographic details

Professional maps with Swiss-quality hill shading and coastal effects, crafted by expert cartographers.

Dark and vivid maps for data visualization

Maps for nature apps

Use the landscape map style when you want to display routes or features in a natural-looking context.

Highlight walking routes, show wildlife locations, or give a beautiful backdrop to any other data you have about the land.

Example nature app with Landscape basemap

Hillshades & land gradients

Landscape includes two layers that you can use to enhance your own cartography:

  • Land gradients with shading that enhances coastlines and polar regions.
  • Hand-drawn hillshading that gives an artistic look to mountains and hills.
Hand drawn hillshade layer for the Alps

Available as

vector tiles

Vector tiles

MapTiler SDK, native MVT clients

raster tiles

Raster tiles

Leaflet, OpenLayers, XYZ

map services

Map services

WMTS and OGC Tiles API for QGIS or ArcGIS

static maps

Static maps

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