Licensing
MapVG exports are licensed for broad use – personal projects, client work, commercial products, and everything in between.
MapVG allows you to use any exported maps for personal, professional, or commercial projects. Tourism brochures, editorial illustrations, data visualisations, signage, laser-cut art, Etsy prints, client deliverables – it's all covered.
You can restyle, redraw, simplify, crop, and/or combine your map with other artwork – the exported file is yours to work with. Even a heavily modified map is still covered by your MapVG licence.
If your map ends up in a commercial product, that's completely fine. MapVG doesn't take a cut, and we don't require attribution in your finished work. Physical products, including prints and laser-cut objects are all no worries at all.
Note: The information on this page provides a high-level overview of what you can and cannot do with a MapVG map. It is written to be useful, not exhaustive – for the full legal detail, the MapVG Terms of Service is the document that counts.
MapVG is built on data from OpenStreetMap®, a global community of contributors who map the world openly and freely. Under the Open Database Licence (ODbL), works that make use of OSM data may require attribution to OpenStreetMap contributors depending on how the data is used.
For most design work – posters, prints, illustrations – the attribution requirement is light-touch. Including a small © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) note somewhere in your work (a caption, a footer, the back of a print) is the standard way to satisfy it. Many designers include it as a matter of course; it also signals to clients and customers that the geographic data is accurate and professionally sourced.
If your project has specific licensing requirements or you're working at scale, it's worth reviewing the OSM attribution guidelines directly.
