One tile stack.
Every product.

Questions about these use cases

• What is maps.guru best suited for?

  Applications that render a lot of map views on a predictable budget: delivery and logistics tracking, store locators, real-estate listings, field-service dispatch, fleet dashboards, and data-visualisation products. The flat tier model suits products where map load volume is high but revenue per map view is low.

• Can I build a store locator with maps.guru?

  Yes. Upload a CSV of store locations, map the latitude and longitude columns, and maps.guru generates an embeddable map with markers. Our free store locator builder does this without writing code.

• Is maps.guru suitable for a delivery or logistics app?

  Yes, for the map rendering and address-resolution layer: vector tiles for the map view, geocoding for pickup and drop addresses, and static maps for order receipts and notifications.

• Does it work for products serving users outside India?

  Yes. Coverage is global because the basemap is built from worldwide OpenStreetMap data, and tiles are served from Cloudflare’s global edge network. The India-first framing refers to address-matching quality and INR pricing, not to geographic limits.

Mapping terms in these use cases, defined

The vocabulary behind tiles, styles, and geocoding, in plain language.

What is Vector tile?

A vector tile is a compressed binary chunk of map geometry (roads, buildings, labels) that the browser styles and renders at runtime, instead of downloading a pre-drawn image. Vector tiles let one dataset power unlimited visual styles and stay sharp at every zoom level.

What is Basemap?

A basemap is the background map layer (roads, water, landuse, place labels) that your own data is drawn on top of. maps.guru serves basemaps as MapLibre-compatible vector tiles.

What is Map style?

A map style is a JSON document that tells a renderer which colours, fonts, widths, and zoom rules to apply to each layer of a vector tile. maps.guru styles follow the MapLibre Style Specification, so they work in any MapLibre or Mapbox GL JS compatible renderer.

What is Geocoding?

Geocoding is the process of converting a text address or place name into latitude and longitude coordinates. Reverse geocoding does the opposite: it converts coordinates into the nearest human-readable address.

What is PMTiles?

PMTiles is a single-file archive format for map tiles that supports HTTP range requests, so a tile server can read one tile out of a multi-gigabyte archive without unpacking it. maps.guru stores its tile archives as PMTiles on Cloudflare R2.

What is MapLibre GL JS?

MapLibre GL JS is an open-source WebGL map renderer, forked from Mapbox GL JS v1 after that project moved to a proprietary licence. It is the reference renderer for maps.guru styles and carries no per-render licence fee.

What is Tile request?

A tile request is one HTTP fetch of a single map tile. A typical desktop map view loads roughly 10 to 20 tiles, and panning or zooming loads more, which is why tile quotas are counted in tens of thousands rather than page views.

What is Static map?

A static map is a server-rendered PNG or JPEG image of a map at a fixed centre, zoom, and size. Static maps are used where an interactive map cannot run: email, PDF exports, Open Graph share cards, and AI chat replies.