Map Styles
The data in all the right shapes and sizes.

Map Styles

Beautiful styles that highlight the right context for every situation.

When visualizing your location data, the quality of your end result will be determined by its canvas—the basemap. If the content is amazing, but the canvas is garbage, the map isn’t worth much. As the saying goes, “Garbage in. Garbage out.”

Our basemap styles focus on enabling well-designed map integrations with just the right amount and type of data to gives users optimal efficiency and aesthetic joy. Our map styles allow you to choose the best mixture of detail and design for your integration—and if you use vector maps, you can have flexibility to customize the style to your needs.


Stadia Maps Styles

Our homegrown styles are the result of years of refinement based on user feedback around their use cases.

Alidade Smooth

Designed to let your data take center stage, Alidade Smooth is a lightly saturated style tailored for basemaps with lots of overlays or markers.

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Alidade Smooth Dark

If Alidade Smooth helps your data shine during the day, our Alidade Smooth Dark variant lets your data shine all night long. Helpfully featuring a dark background, tuned colors to be easy on the eyes, and just the right amount of data, the Alidade Smooth Dark style is perfect for when you just need a bit more…dark.

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Alidade Satellite

Carrying on the tradition of the Alidade family of styles, Alidade Satellite turns the earth itself into your canvas. This style uses satellite imagery as a base, and layers labels and outlines of major features on top to create a solid contextual backdrop for your data.

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Outdoors

Outdoors—where we'd all rather be. Our Outdoors style is custom designed to focus on displaying the features that matter to the adventurers, hikers, and trailblazers in your life. With detailed data of mountain peaks, hiking trails, and national parks, your users will always be able to find the next excursion, whether it's right around the corner or across the world.

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Stadia × Stamen

Based on the original basemaps created for the Knight Foundation, the Stadia x Stamen partnership fuses Stamen’s tradition of beautiful, functional maps with our strong and reliable platform, affordable and accessible to anyone.

Stamen Toner

The most popular of the excellent styles from Stamen Design, these high-contrast B+W (black and white) maps are the perfect backdrop for your colorful and eye-catching overlays.

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Stamen Terrain

Orient yourself with the Stamen terrain maps, featuring hill shading and natural vegetation colors.

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Stamen Watercolor

Reminiscent of hand drawn maps, the watercolor maps from Stamen Design apply raster effect area washes and organic edges over a paper texture to add warm pop to any map.

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Classic Styles

Classic, familiar styles that you've probably seen around the web.

OSM Bright

The OSM Bright style is a stalwart in the world of OSM maps. We offer it, without any substantial changes, for your mapping enjoyment. Use OSM Bright where your users need lots of POIs, in dense city environments, or where a touch of the classic style is all you need.

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