Licensing

Free & Discounted Maps

Our free and discounted maps can be downloaded and used commercially with a nonrestrictive Creative Commons License (CC-BY 4.0). If you are planning to use these maps in any kind of product you will have to add an attribution which states where they come from. An example could look like this:

          Map designed by boundlessmaps.com

Premium Maps License Options

UsageStandardExtendedUnlimited
invitations, advertising and promotional projects, including printed materials, product packaging, presentations, film and video presentations, commercials, catalogs, brochures, promotional greeting cards and promotional postcards (ie. not for resale or license) up to an unlimited number of prints
non-commercial, educational or research projects
social media post or profile image
decorative background on a personal computer or mobile device
online or electronic publications, including web pages, blogs, ebooks and videos, limited to a
maximum of 48,000,000 total pixels (for example: 6000px x 8000px) per media file where un-edited
invitations, advertising and promotional projects, including printed materials, product packaging, presentations, catalogs, brochures, promotional greeting cards and postcards up to an unlimited number of prints
entertainment applications, such as books and book covers, magazines, newspapers, editorials, newsletters, and video, broadcast and theatrical presentations up to an unlimited number of prints
prints, posters (i.e. a hardcopy) and other reproductions for personal or promotional purposes, resale, license or other distribution up to an unlimited number of prints
design elements (Props & Scenery) in television broadcasts, short film & full-length film productions
design templates for resale (software, applications & web distribution)
design elements on software applications for resale (smartphones, tablets, desktop operating systems)
in themes, skins and other electronic software meant for resale with unlimited amount of pixels per media file where un-edited

Note, Standard and Extended licenses permit you to use the purchased maps in one project only. For use in multiple projects, additional licenses may be required.

Mandatory Attribution

Our maps are produced work that exclusively uses open data sources. Some of these sources require attribution when distributing our maps, whether they’re free or premium versions. Please see below for detailed guidelines and examples of proper attribution requirements.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is open data, licensed under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) by the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF). It is required to use the following copyright notice:

           © OpenStreetMap contributors

and a link to https://openstreetmap.org/copyright, which has detailed information about OpenStreetMap’s data sources as well as the ODbL. Furthermore, there are different requirements on how to properly credit the dataset depending on an use case. For more details, please refer to Attribution Guidelines.

Microsoft ML Buildings

This dataset represents building footprints derived from satellite imagery. The data is made available and licensed by Microsoft under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL).

Google Open Buildings

This dataset represents building footprints derived from satellite imagery. The data is made available and licensed by Google under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL).

SRTMGL1

NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) datasets provided by the LP DAAC requires any author using this product in their work to credit the data, and any assistance provided by the LP DAAC, in the data section of the paper, the acknowledgement section, and/or as a reference. The recommended citation is:

          NASA JPL (2013). NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Global 1 arc second [Data set]. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. 
 Accessed 2023-05-09 from https://doi.org/10.5067/MEaSUREs/SRTM/SRTMGL1.003.

SRTMGL3

NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) datasets provided by the LP DAAC requires any author using this product in their work to credit the data, and any assistance provided by the LP DAAC, in the data section of the paper, the acknowledgement section, and/or as a reference. The recommended citation is:

          NASA JPL (2013). NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Global 3 arc second [Data set]. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. 
 Accessed 2023-05-09 from https://doi.org/10.5067/MEaSUREs/SRTM/SRTMGL3.003.

GeoNames

          © GeoNames licensed under CC BY 4.0

Prohibited Uses


  • share, distribute, publish or otherwise exploit the Stock Maps for resale, license or other distribution in an electronic format;

  • sub-license, re-sell, rent, lend, assign, gift or otherwise transfer or distribute the Stock Maps or the rights granted under these terms;

  • use any of the Stock Maps as part of a trade-mark, design-mark, trade-name, business name, service mark, or logo;

  • use Stock Maps in a manner that competes with our business including, but not limited to, displaying Stock Maps in any format (including thumbnails) for download or Export on a website or offering Stock Maps for sale;

  • use the Stock Maps for editorial purposes without including the following credit adjacent to the Stock Maps or in audio/visual production credits: '© Boundless Maps';

  • include the Stock Maps in any product or service that allows to extract or access or reproduce the Stock Maps as an electronic file;

  • falsely represent, expressly or impliedly, that the Stock Maps were created by any other person, or an entity other than the copyright holder of the Stock Maps.