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Stamen Terrain

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Styled Raster Tiles

Static Maps API

Orient yourself with our terrain maps, featuring hill shading and natural vegetation colors. Available with raster layer groups separating the background, lines, and labels to enable composition with your own raster layers.

Preview and Use Stamen Terrain

Our standard endpoints will serve requests from the fastest server no matter where your users are, and is backed by our global CDN with multiple layers of redundancy.

Vector Style
https://tiles.stadiamaps.com/styles/stamen_terrain.json
Vector Style (API key auth)
https://tiles.stadiamaps.com/styles/stamen_terrain.json?api_key=YOUR-API-KEY
Raster XYZ PNG URL format (up to zoom 20)
https://tiles.stadiamaps.com/tiles/stamen_terrain/{z}/{x}/{y}{r}.png

Raster XYZ PNG URL format (for OpenLayers, QGIS, MapLibre, and other renderers without retina placeholder support)
https://tiles.stadiamaps.com/tiles/stamen_terrain/{z}/{x}/{y}@2x.png

Static Maps API Base URL
https://tiles.stadiamaps.com/static/stamen_terrain.png
Raster TileJSON
https://tiles.stadiamaps.com/styles/stamen_terrain/rendered.json

What do {x}, {y}, {z}, and {r} mean?

The {x}, {y}, and {z} placeholders represent x, y, and zoom following the standard slippy map tilename convention. This format is used by most popular libraries. Note that our tile numbering uses the XYZ scheme, not TMS.

The {r} placeholder is used for HiDPI ("retina") display suppoort. Popular web map renderers like Leaflet understand this placeholder. If your renderer does not understand this (e.g., MapLibre GL JS or QGIS), you can either remove the placeholder to get raw 256x256 PNGs, or replace it with @2x for 2x scaled images.

Our EU endpoints allow you to explicitly route all requests to our EU servers. See our EU Endpoints page for more details.

Vector Style
https://tiles-eu.stadiamaps.com/styles/stamen_terrain.json
Vector Style (API key auth)
https://tiles-eu.stadiamaps.com/styles/stamen_terrain.json?api_key=YOUR-API-KEY
Raster XYZ PNG URL format (up to zoom 20)
https://tiles-eu.stadiamaps.com/tiles/stamen_terrain/{z}/{x}/{y}{r}.png

Raster XYZ PNG URL format (for OpenLayers, QGIS, MapLibre, and other renderers without retina placeholder support)
https://tiles-eu.stadiamaps.com/tiles/stamen_terrain/{z}/{x}/{y}@2x.png

Static Maps API Base URL
https://tiles-eu.stadiamaps.com/static/stamen_terrain.png
Raster TileJSON
https://tiles-eu.stadiamaps.com/styles/stamen_terrain/rendered.json

What do {x}, {y}, {z}, and {r} mean?

The {x}, {y}, and {z} placeholders represent x, y, and zoom following the standard slippy map tilename convention. This format is used by most popular libraries. Note that our tile numbering uses the XYZ scheme, not TMS.

The {r} placeholder is used for HiDPI ("retina") display suppoort. Popular web map renderers like Leaflet understand this placeholder. If your renderer does not understand this (e.g., MapLibre GL JS or QGIS), you can either remove the placeholder to get raw 256x256 PNGs, or replace it with @2x for 2x scaled images.

Leaflet is one of the oldest mapping libraries still in active use, and its longevity is a testament to its quality. What it lacks in fancy 3D support, it makes up for in ease-of-use and a vibrant plugin ecosystem. Check out our tutorials to get started with your favorite web framework or vanilla JavaScript.

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// Initialize a map centered at (53, 12) at zoom level 5
var map = L.map('map').setView([53, 12], 5);

// Style URL format in XYZ format; see our documentation for more options
// You can also explicitly request tiles from our EU servers using the following URL:
// https://tiles-eu.stadiamaps.com/tiles/stamen_terrain/{z}/{x}/{y}{r}.png
L.tileLayer('https://tiles.stadiamaps.com/tiles/stamen_terrain/{z}/{x}/{y}{r}.png', {
    maxZoom: 20,
    attribution: '&copy; <a href="https://stadiamaps.com/" target="_blank">Stadia Maps</a> &copy; <a href="https://stamen.com/" target="_blank">Stamen Design</a> &copy; <a href="https://openmaptiles.org/" target="_blank">OpenMapTiles</a> &copy; <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright" target="_blank">OpenStreetMap</a>', 
}).addTo(map);

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var map = new maplibregl.Map({
  container: 'map',
  // You can also explicitly request tiles from our EU servers using the following URL:
  // https://tiles-eu.stadiamaps.com/styles/stamen_terrain.json
  style: 'https://tiles.stadiamaps.com/styles/stamen_terrain.json',  // Style URL; see our documentation for more options
  center: [12, 53],  // Initial focus coordinate
  zoom: 4
});

// Add zoom and rotation controls to the map.
map.addControl(new maplibregl.NavigationControl());

In OpenLayers v8.0.0 and newer, Stadia Maps is one of the bundled tile sources, so it's only a few lines of code to get started.

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const map = new ol.Map({
  target: 'map',
  layers: [
    new ol.layer.Tile({
      source: new ol.source.StadiaMaps({
        layer: 'stamen_terrain',
        retina: true,
      }),
    }),
  ],
  view: new ol.View({
    center: ol.proj.fromLonLat([12, 53]),
    zoom: 5
  })
});

If you're using a version before v8.0.0, you'll need to create an XYZ source like so.

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const map = new ol.Map({
  target: 'map',
  layers: [
    new ol.layer.Tile({
      source: new ol.source.XYZ({
        url: 'https://tiles.stadiamaps.com/tiles/stamen_terrain/{z}/{x}/{y}@2x.png',
        attributions: [
          '&copy; <a href="https://stadiamaps.com/" target="_blank">Stadia Maps</a>',
          '&copy; <a href="https://stamen.com/" target="_blank">Stamen Design</a>',
          '&copy; <a href="https://openmaptiles.org/" target="_blank">OpenMapTiles</a>',
          '&copy; <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright" target="_blank">OpenStreetMap</a>'
        ],
        tilePixelRatio: 2,
        maxZoom: 20
      })
    }),
  ],
  view: new ol.View({
    center: ol.proj.fromLonLat([12, 53]),
    zoom: 5
  })
});

Raster Layer Groups

If you're building a raster map and want to intersperse your own overlays (for example, to use as layers in QGIS), we offer three separate layer groups.

Name URL format QGIS URL format Description
Terrain Background https://tiles.stadiamaps.com/tiles/stamen_terrain_background/{z}/{x}/{y}{r}.png https://tiles.stadiamaps.com/tiles/stamen_terrain_background/{z}/{x}/{y}@2x.png Includes only background layers (water, landcover, etc.)
Terrain Lines https://tiles.stadiamaps.com/tiles/stamen_terrain_lines/{z}/{x}/{y}{r}.png https://tiles.stadiamaps.com/tiles/stamen_terrain_lines/{z}/{x}/{y}@2x.png Includes only line layers (road, borders, etc.)
Terrain Labels https://tiles.stadiamaps.com/tiles/stamen_terrain_labels/{z}/{x}/{y}{r}.png https://tiles.stadiamaps.com/tiles/stamen_terrain_labels/{z}/{x}/{y}@2x.png Includes only label layers (places, road names, etc.)

Next Steps

Take the next step and follow one of our tutorials to set up a map for your website or app. Just plug in one of the appropriate URLs above!

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