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Our Map Server
We have our own map server which serves a set of tiles we call "WayMaps" which, unlike OSGB, covers the whole of the British Isles - Scotland, England, Wales, Ireland, and the Isle of Man - and are built from a combination of open data from a variety of sources:
- Ordnance Survey and other governmental data from various agencies released under the Government's Open Data programme © Crown copyright and database right, 2011-2025.
- A great deal of data from OpenStreetMap contributors which is released under an Open Data Commons Open Database License.
- Height data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
- Height data from the Copernicus European Digital Elevation Model which was produced with funding by the European Union.
- Location of summits of various tops from The Database of British and Irish Hills which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
- Locations of Irish trig points from Trigpointing Ireland created by James Carroll.
- Locations of historic places from a variety of sources:
- In England - © Historic England 2025. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2025. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on the last date on which we built map tiles. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.
- In Scotland - contains Historic Environment Scotland and Ordnance Survey data © Historic Environment Scotland - Scottish Charity No. SC045925 © Crown copyright and database right.
- In Ireland - Copyright Government of Ireland. This dataset National Monuments was created by National Monuments Service, Department of Culture, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. This copyright material is licensed for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
- The boundaries of National Trust land is England and Wales is from that charity and are used under an Open Government Licence for public sector access
The tiles are aimed primarily at walkers and other leisure users so elements like the Cumbria Way are clearly marked by green circles and we use relief shading to make it easier to interpret the contours.
Our map tiles also include extra details not on OS maps. Here for example is the area around Latrigg in the Lake District at the smaller of the two 1:50,000 zoom levels and you can see that the Wainwright summit of Latrigg is marked with triangle in an appropriate colour for the Wainwright book to which it relates.
At the larger of the two 1:50,000 zoom levels, shown below, we show access land, just like the OS. Close to the summit you can also see an OS survey block marked (light blue circle with a dot in the middle) and again these aren't shown on OS maps.
Finally here's our 1:25,000 zoom level which offers extra features like field boundaries (if available, coverage is still variable, but improving).
Drag any of these maps to move around and use your mouse scroll wheel or the "+" and "-" buttons on the maps to zoom in and out.
You can also browse these tiles here or our demonstration site.
We are updating or map tiles frequently, including taking regular snapshots from OpenStreetMaps.
Whether you're using Ordnance Survey's openspace.js, OpenLayers, or Leaflet our tiles are a good alternative to Ordnance Survey's OpenSpace Pro server if you are using too many tiles to stick with their (now deprecated) free OpenSpace server. We're also considerably cheaper.
Please contact us for a quote.