Mapbox 

Outdoors

Mapbox Outdoors is a general-purpose map focused on wilderness locations with curated tilesets and specialized styling tailored to hiking, biking, and the most adventurous use cases.

Composed by experienced cartographic designers, the Outdoors Classic Style Template saves developers countless hours they would have spent building a similar base map to tell their location story.

Mapbox 

Outdoors

Mapbox Outdoors is a general-purpose map focused on wilderness locations with curated tilesets and specialized styling tailored to hiking, biking, and the most adventurous use cases.

Composed by experienced cartographic designers, the Outdoors Classic Style Template saves developers countless hours they would have spent building a similar base map to tell their location story.

Natural features

Rivers, lakes, streams, oceans, coastal boundaries, parks, land cover, and beaches.

Terrain

Vivid hillshading delivers visually tactile topography for outdoor and active lifestyle apps.

Built features

Building footprints, rail stations, urban parks, land use, famous landmarks, and neighborhood stores.

Roadways

Highly organized road data, designed to present a clearly legible hierarchy of all road types across a wide zoom range.

Unique iconography

Select countries and cities feature custom highway shields and public transit icons.

Places

A complete hierarchy of location labels, from countries and states down to villages and neighborhoods.

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Soft, contrasting color scheme

Mapbox Outdoors has a soft, contrasting color scheme that allows the viewer to easily recognize terrain features and elevation while providing depth, space and more gentle hues to overlay custom location data.

Trails, paths and more

To meet the needs of the bikers, hikers, runners, and skiers that rely on Mapbox Outdoors, our cartographers mined OpenStreetMap for its extensive trail, path, tracks and piste, as well as rocks and mountain peaks information, and developed styling that clearly articulates each type for maximum legibility.

Curated terrain data

Global elevation and landcover data lie at the heart of Mapbox Outdoors. We processed the best elevation and land cover sources from around the world, including the U.S. Geological Survey, Norwegian Mapping Authority, and Canadian GeoBase data portal. We combined them into a set of hillshade, contour line, and land cover layers that provide the necessary context for Mapbox Outdoor's path and trail information.

Relevant points of interest

Mapbox Outdoors contains an array of POI data relevant to active use cases: you can find campsites, public restrooms, and even water fountains in these specialized layers. POI icons have background shapes and pronounced colors, making them particularly viewable on mobile. In Mapbox Studio, you can customize these icons with different shapes, sizes, and colors based on classification.

Globe View at low zoom levels

Mapbox Outdoors defaults to Globe View at low zoom levels, including fog and atmospheric properties, offering you an alternative to the flat and skewed Mercator Projection when aiming to realistically display visual information that is continental in scale.