Map examples by format: 110 examples

CDR

CorelDRAW CDR

CDR — a ready CorelDRAW file: download it and open it with a double click, no import step and no intermediate formats.

SVG

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)

SVG is an open vector format for web and print.

PDF

PDF (vector — Portable Document Format)

Vector PDF stores the map as geometry and keeps every detail at any zoom — ideal for printing and editing in CAD/Illustrator.

AI

Adobe Illustrator (AI)

AI is the working format of Adobe Illustrator, the industry-standard tool for vector graphics.

EPS

EPS (Encapsulated PostScript)

EPS is a vector format for printing and print production, based on PostScript.

PostScript

PostScript (.ps)

PostScript (.ps) is a page-description language by Adobe, predecessor of PDF.

PSD

Adobe Photoshop PSD

PSD is the native Adobe Photoshop format with layer support.

PDF/X

PDF/X (ISO 15930, Print-Ready)

PDF/X (ISO 15930) is a subset of PDF for print production: fonts are embedded, the colour space is described by an output profile, scripts are forbidden, and trim and bleed frames…

PDF/A

PDF/A (ISO 19005, Archival)

PDF/A (ISO 19005) is an archival format for long-term storage.

PDF (raster)

PDF (raster — Portable Document Format, rasterized)

Raster PDF bakes the map into an image inside a PDF that opens instantly in any browser or viewer without lag.

LaTeX/TikZ

LaTeX/TikZ (Academic Map)

Export OpenStreetMap map data as LaTeX/TikZ for academic publications.

Tactile SVG

Tactile SVG (Swell Paper)

Export OpenStreetMap map data as a tactile map for blind and visually impaired users.

EMF

EMF — Enhanced Windows Metafile

EMF (Enhanced Metafile) is Windows' 32-bit vector format, successor to WMF and the standard intermediate format for printing and pasting graphics into Microsoft Office.

WMF

WMF — Windows Metafile (legacy)

WMF (Windows Metafile) is Windows' 16-bit vector format from 1990, still alive in the Office clipboard and in legacy documents.

SVGZ

SVGZ — Compressed SVG (gzip)

SVGZ is plain SVG compressed with gzip.

Inkscape SVG

Inkscape SVG — SVG with Named Layers

Inkscape SVG is a dialect of the W3C SVG standard extended with the inkscape:* and sodipodi:* namespaces for layers, guides, and editor metadata.

HTML5 Map

Interactive HTML5 Map (Leaflet, standalone)

Canvas-HTML is a self-contained interactive HTML5 file with a Leaflet.js map.

JEF

JEF — Janome Embroidery File

JEF is the native file format of Janome embroidery machines: a binary file with a 116-byte header (hoop size, thread colors, design bounds) followed by stitch data.

PES

PES — Brother / Babylock Embroidery File

PES is the de-facto standard of home and hobby embroidery: the native format of Brother machines and compatible Babylock and Bernina.

DWG

AutoCAD DWG

DWG is the native AutoCAD format and the standard for architectural and construction design.

DXF

AutoCAD DXF (Drawing Exchange Format)

DXF (Drawing Exchange Format) is the universal interchange format for CAD systems.

KOMPAS

KOMPAS (flat 2D DXF drawing)

A flat 2D DXF drawing of an OpenStreetMap base plan for the Russian CAD system KOMPAS — no volume: it opens in KOMPAS-Graphic or KOMPAS-3D as a drawing.

MIF

MapInfo MIF/MID

MIF/MID is the text-based interchange format for MapInfo Professional.

TAB

MapInfo TAB

TAB is the native format of MapInfo Professional.

G-code

G-code (Laser Engraving / CNC)

Export OpenStreetMap map data as G-code for laser engraving and CNC milling.

LandXML

LandXML — Surveying & Civil Engineering Data Exchange

LandXML is an open XML vocabulary from the Autodesk, Bentley, and Trimble consortium (1999) for exchanging civil engineering and surveying data between AutoCAD Civil 3D, Bentley…

DGN

MicroStation DGN (Bentley CAD)

DGN is the native binary CAD format of Bentley MicroStation, alive since 1984 and dominant in large infrastructure: highways, railway corridors, plant process diagrams.

DWF

Autodesk DWF (Design Web Format)

DWF (Design Web Format) is an Autodesk format for publishing and viewing design data without editing.

HPGL

HPGL — Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language

HPGL is a text-based vector plotter control language created by Hewlett-Packard and publicly documented in 1984.

Shapefile

ESRI Shapefile (SHP)

Shapefile is the most popular format in geographic information systems (GIS).

GeoJSON

GeoJSON

GeoJSON is an open geodata format based on JSON.

KML

KML (Keyhole Markup Language)

KML is the Google Earth format for geodata visualization on a virtual globe.

KMZ

KMZ (Compressed KML)

KMZ is the compressed version of KML for Google Earth.

GPX

GPX (GPS Exchange Format)

GPX is the standard format for navigation devices and GPS receivers.

GeoPackage

GeoPackage (GPKG)

GeoPackage is a modern OGC format for storing geodata in a single SQLite-based file.

FlatGeobuf

FlatGeobuf (FGB)

FlatGeobuf is a high-performance binary format for geodata based on FlatBuffers.

GeoParquet

GeoParquet (Apache Parquet)

GeoParquet is a columnar geospatial format based on Apache Parquet.

SpatiaLite

SpatiaLite (SQLite + spatial)

SpatiaLite is a spatial extension for SQLite.

FileGDB

Esri File Geodatabase

FileGDB is Esri's format for storing complex geodata.

GeoJSON-Seq

GeoJSON Sequences (Newline-delimited)

GeoJSON-Seq is a line-delimited variant of GeoJSON where each line is a separate Feature.

QGIS Project (.qgz)

QGIS Native Project — Compressed (.qgz)

Native QGIS project in .qgz format — a compressed ZIP container with the project file, GeoPackage data, and QML styles.

QGIS Project (.qgs)

QGIS Native Project — XML (.qgs)

Native QGIS project in .qgs format — an XML project file alongside the GeoPackage data and QML styles.

IndoorGML

IndoorGML Indoor Spatial Data

IndoorGML is an OGC standard for describing the inside of buildings: room geometries, adjacency topology, and a navigation graph.

PNG

PNG (Portable Network Graphics)

PNG is a raster format with transparency support.

JPEG

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)

JPEG is a popular raster format with compression.

GeoTIFF

GeoTIFF (Georeferenced TIFF)

GeoTIFF is a raster format with embedded georeferencing.

TIFF

TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)

TIFF is a high-quality raster format with lossless compression.

Hillshade

Hillshade (Shaded Relief, GeoTIFF)

Hillshade (shaded relief) is a raster image simulating the shadows of slopes.

Color Relief

Color Relief / Hypsometric Tint (GeoTIFF)

Color relief (hypsometric tint) colours terrain elevation, like a classic paper topo map: green lowlands, yellow-brown uplands, white peaks.

AVIF

AVIF — AV1 Image File Format

AVIF is a modern raster format built on a key frame of the AV1 video codec inside a HEIF container.

WebP

WebP — Google Web Image Format

WebP is Google's open raster format built on the VP8 video codec (lossy) and its VP8L extension (lossless).

JPEG XL

JPEG XL — Next-Generation Image Codec

JPEG XL (.jxl) is a raster successor to classic JPEG, standardised as ISO/IEC 18181 in 2022.

JPEG 2000

JPEG 2000 — Wavelet Image Compression

JPEG 2000 (.jp2) is the ISO/IEC 15444 international standard that uses a wavelet transform instead of the block DCT of ordinary JPEG.

CMYK TIFF

CMYK TIFF — Print-Ready Raster for Offset Printing

CMYK TIFF is a TIFF specialisation for the printing industry: the map is stored in the 4-channel Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Key model instead of RGB, at 300 DPI with lossless LZW…

Satellite PNG

Satellite Imagery as PNG

This is a BARE photo from orbit: not one of our layers is on it — no buildings, no streets, no labels.

Satellite JPEG

Satellite Imagery as JPEG

This is a BARE photo from orbit: not one of our layers is on it — no buildings, no streets, no labels.

Satellite GeoTIFF

Satellite Imagery as Georeferenced GeoTIFF

This is a BARE photo from orbit: not one of our layers is on it — no buildings, no streets, no labels.

ASCII Grid

ESRI ASCII Grid (.asc)

ESRI ASCII Grid is the common text format for an ELEVATION GRID: a six-line header (NCOLS, NROWS, XLLCORNER, YLLCORNER, CELLSIZE, NODATA_VALUE) followed by space-separated numbers.

SRTM HGT

SRTM HGT Elevation Tile

HGT is NASA's native SRTM elevation format: a raw array of 16-bit signed big-endian integers, a strict 1°×1° tile (1201×1201 for SRTM3 or 3601×3601 for SRTM1), no header…

PMTiles

PMTiles

PMTiles is a serverless vector tile archive for web maps.

Map Tiles

Map Tiles (XYZ / Slippy Map)

Export map as a tile pyramid (PNG/JPEG) for web applications.

MBTiles

MBTiles (SQLite Tiles)

MBTiles is a format for storing map tiles in a single SQLite file.

Tiled TMX

Tiled TMX (Game Map)

Export OpenStreetMap map data as Tiled TMX for game development.

MVT

Mapbox Vector Tiles (MVT / .pbf)

MVT (Mapbox Vector Tiles) is an open specification for binary vector tiles built on Protocol Buffers, now the de-facto standard of web cartography.

GPKG Tiles

GeoPackage Tiles (OGC raster tiles in SQLite)

GeoPackage Tiles is the official OGC extension to the GeoPackage specification for storing raster tiles inside a single SQLite file.

STL

STL (3D Printing)

Export city buildings to STL format for 3D printing.

IFC

IFC (BIM)

Export buildings to IFC4 format for BIM software.

CityJSON

CityJSON (3D City Model)

Export buildings to CityJSON 2.0 for 3D city modeling.

FBX

FBX (Game Engines)

Export 3D buildings to FBX format for game engines.

COLLADA

COLLADA/DAE (3D Exchange)

Export 3D buildings to COLLADA (.dae) format for 3D interchange.

3D Tiles

3D Tiles (Cesium)

Export buildings to OGC 3D Tiles for streaming visualization.

glTF

glTF (GL Transmission Format)

glTF is a modern open format for 3D scenes and models.

GLB

GLB (Binary glTF)

GLB is the binary variant of glTF format.

OBJ

Wavefront OBJ

OBJ is a classic 3D mesh format supported by all 3D software.

3MF

3MF (3D Manufacturing Format)

Export 3D buildings to 3MF -- the modern standard for 3D printing.

PLY

PLY (Stanford Polygon Format)

Export 3D buildings to PLY -- a simple format for point clouds and meshes.

CityGML

CityGML (OGC 3D City Model)

Export 3D buildings to CityGML -- the OGC standard for 3D city models.

VRML

VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language)

Export 3D buildings to VRML 2.0 (.wrl) -- the classic virtual reality format.

X3D

X3D (Extensible 3D)

Export 3D buildings to X3D -- the ISO standard for interactive 3D graphics.

3DS

3DS (Autodesk 3ds Max)

Export 3D buildings to 3DS -- Autodesk 3ds Max legacy format.

USD

USD/USDZ (Universal Scene Description)

Export 3D buildings to USD (Pixar) -- the industry standard for VFX and AR.

STEP

STEP (ISO 10303 CAD Exchange)

Export 3D buildings to STEP -- the ISO standard for CAD data exchange.

Alembic

Alembic (VFX Geometry Cache)

Export 3D buildings to Alembic (.abc) -- the industry standard for VFX and film.

3D Terrain

3D Terrain Mesh (STL/GLB/OBJ/PLY/glTF)

A 3D terrain model — a relief surface built from the global Copernicus GLO-30 DEM (30 m) and saved into a 3D format: STL for 3D printing, GLB/glTF for web and Three.js, OBJ for…

Minecraft .schem

Minecraft Schematic (Sponge v2)

Export OpenStreetMap map data as Minecraft .schem (Sponge Schematic v2).

Quantized Mesh

Cesium Quantized Mesh (.terrain)

Quantized Mesh is Cesium's binary terrain format for streaming 3D relief into a browser: a triangle mesh with vertices quantized to 16 bits and edge indices for seamless tile…

LAS

LAS — ASPRS Point Cloud (LiDAR format)

LAS is the binary ASPRS industry standard for point clouds that has underpinned LiDAR data exchange for two decades: each point carries XYZ, intensity, and a classification code…

USDZ

USDZ — Apple AR Quick Look (based on Pixar USD)

USDZ is a container format for AR assets from Apple and Pixar (WWDC 2018): an uncompressed ZIP packaging a USD scene together with textures into a single file that an iPhone opens…

SketchUp

SketchUp-compatible export (COLLADA .dae)

SketchUp is the most popular rapid 3D-modeling tool for architecture, interiors, and urban massing studies, and its native .skp format is a proprietary binary with a closed…

Garmin IMG

Garmin IMG

Garmin IMG is the navigation map format for Garmin GPS devices (eTrex, Oregon, Drive).

OsmAnd OBF

OsmAnd OBF

OsmAnd OBF is the offline map format for the OsmAnd mobile app (Android/iOS).

Garmin GPI

Garmin GPI (Points of Interest)

Garmin GPI is the points-of-interest database for Garmin devices: drop it on the unit or into BaseCamp and your points show up on the map.

TomTom OV2

TomTom OV2

TomTom OV2 is the POI format for TomTom navigation devices.

FIT

Garmin FIT Course (Flexible and Interoperable Data Transfer)

FIT is Garmin's binary fitness protocol that powers Forerunner watches, Edge bike computers, Fenix multisport devices, plus Wahoo, Polar and Bryton gear.

TCX

Garmin Training Center XML (TCX) Course

TCX (Training Center XML) is Garmin's XML training-data format that appeared around 2007 for the Garmin Training Center application.

Garmin JNX

Garmin BirdsEye JNX Raster Tiles

JNX is a binary raster-tile container Garmin created for its BirdsEye satellite imagery service, supported on Oregon, GPSMAP, Montana and etrex handhelds.

Garmin Custom Maps KMZ

Garmin Custom Maps KMZ (Tiled JPEG Overlay)

Garmin Custom Maps KMZ is the official (since 2010) way to load your own raster map onto Garmin Oregon, Colorado, Dakota, GPSMAP, Montana and etrex navigators without building a…

Locus Map

Locus Map SQLiteDB Offline Tiles

Locus Map is an Android navigator from Czech company Asamm Software, popular with hikers, mountain bikers and geocachers.

TomTom ITN

TomTom ITN Itinerary (Route Waypoints)

ITN is a simple text route format for TomTom GO, Start and Via navigators of the 2005–2015 era.

Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF

Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF

Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) is a raster format for cloud streaming of tiles.

GeoArrow

GeoArrow (Apache Arrow)

GeoArrow is an Apache Arrow-based columnar format for geospatial data.

Zarr

Zarr (beta)

Zarr is a multi-dimensional array storage format for scientific data.

NetCDF

NetCDF (Network Common Data Form)

NetCDF is a self-describing binary format for scientific data and the de facto standard in climate science, oceanography, and satellite remote sensing (ERA5, CMIP6, MODIS).

HDF5

HDF5 (Hierarchical Data Format v5)

HDF5 is a binary self-describing container for scientific data with a filesystem inside the file: groups (folders), datasets (arrays), attributes (metadata).

GML

GML (Geography Markup Language)

GML is an OGC standard for encoding geographic features in XML.

DST

DST (Tajima Embroidery)

Export OpenStreetMap map data as Tajima DST embroidery patterns.

OpenDRIVE

OpenDRIVE (ASAM)

OpenDRIVE is the ASAM standard for road network description in autonomous driving.

SUMO

SUMO Network

SUMO (Simulation of Urban Mobility) is an open-source traffic simulator.

Lanelet2

Lanelet2 HD Map

Lanelet2 is an HD map format for autonomous driving.

ROS Grid

ROS Occupancy Grid

Occupancy Grid is a map format for robots and autonomous navigation in ROS/ROS 2.