User:RockMapper/sandbox

MapTiler is a Swiss provider of custom online maps for websites and applications such as those created by NASA, IBM, and the BBC.

MapTiler started as an open source software product used by libraries to turn digitised paper maps into tiled web maps. By 2018, MapTiler had become a maps API with the capability of providing ad-free personalised maps in both online and offline environments. These developments along with the inclusion of satellite imagery from Sentinel-2 and Airbus led to them being winners of the Airbus Multi-Data Challenge organised as part of the Copernicus Masters 2018.

In 2021 MapTiler was providing maps that were being seen by over 300 million people per month and had a multi-million dollar turnover.

Data sources and technology
The maps provided by MapTiler are created using open data sources, such as OpenStreetMap and ESA, and from purchased proprietary data sources, such as Maxar Technologies.

The original MapTiler software for turning raster images and vector geographical data into map tiles for interactive maps became MapTiler Desktop, later rebranded to MapTiler Engine in October 2022.

MapTiler Cloud is the service that provides maps via API for displaying the maps on the web or in applications. MapTiler also provide a JavaScript SDK, MapTiler SDK, for use with API.