Run your own OpenStreetMap server in the cloud with one-step configuration and zero administration. Tile Drawer is a product of Stamen Design’s Michal Migurski.

Map Styles

A few basic styles are provided here for use with Tile Drawer. If this thing takes off, I’d like to add more custom cartography from other designers. E-mail me for more info!

Bright

Use this URL with tile drawer user data:
http://tiledrawer.com/osm-style/style.mml

This is the style that ships with Cascadenik, originally designed in late 2008 to test software and experiment with OpenStreetMap data. It’s largely primary colors, and has definitions for a variety of scales. Because residential roads are used for texture even at small scales, you’ll find that this style is slow to render at lower, city-wide zoom levels. The road widths defined here later informed Stamen’s design work for Cloudmade.

Scratch

Use this URL with tile drawer user data:
http://tiledrawer.com/mapscratch.mml

This demonstration style was produced for the Where 2.0 Maps From Scratch workshop, where Stamen colleague Shawn Allen and I showed how to generate road cartography from raw data and first principles. Scratch is designed to work at just a few scales, and as a demonstration style it lacks certain key features such as points of interest and water bodies. It is, however, simple and self-contained, and can be considered a solid starting point for further design.

Contact: info@tiledrawer.com

Logo & illustration by Nicolas Marichal, USE-IT.

Background by David McLouth, PlaGMaDA.
Used without permission.