Deploying your own Slippy Map

Deploying your own Slippy Map is a common way of Using OpenStreetMap. It usually means integrating a slippy map which shows map tiles into your web page by using some JavaScript code.

You can embed our existing map into your website, just as you might with Google or Yahoo! maps. This can be done using one of the following JavaScript map libraries:

• Leaflet (leafletjs.com) is a free open source JavaScript library with a light, easy to use API, with many plugins.
• OpenLayers (openlayers.org) is a feature-rich free open source JavaScript library.
• Google Maps Example shows how to use the Google Maps API to present OSM maps.

Alternatives:

• Jawg Widgets ([1]) are state-of-the-art open-source html/js widgets for a seamless integration of maps and services (routes, geocoding...).
• Mapstraction (mapstraction.com) is an open source javascript wrapper around the above libraries (and several others) allowing you to swap your choice of map library provider without re-coding anything.
• YCanvas (ycanvas.yoz.sk) Flash/AIR library for web and mobile deployment.
• Zoom zoom zoom map has a nice smooth zoom feature
• Khtmlib also smooth zooms
• Ka-Map (ka-map.maptools.org)
• AFComponents UMap (umapper.com) embeddable Flash slippy map
• OpenScales (openscales.org) mapping framework in ActionScript (flash), configurable by xml
• Modest Maps (modestmaps.com) in Actionscript3, Python, JavaScript, PHP, Processing, Cinder.
• Modestmaps-js is a lightweight, Javascript version of ModestMaps.
• Mapsui (github.com/pauldendulk/mapsui) a C# map component that accesses tile services through BruTile
• Polymaps (polymaps.org) JavaScript library from Stamen

Embedding OSM in a CMS/framework

You can embed OSM in your favourite content management system (CMS):

CMS/framework	Module/plugin	Note	Sources	Tutorial	Example with OSM map embedded
CMS Made Simple	Osm Tag	Module based on OpenLayers	GitHub	Documentation in manpage
CMS Made Simple	Leaflet Tag	Module based on Leaflet	GitHub	Documentation in manpage
Django	GeoDjango	A world-class geographic web framework	Included in the Django framework	A world-class geographic web framework	geodjango-basic-apps
Django	OSMEditor	old! from year 2009	[2]	Editors/Django#Installation
Django-CMS	django-cms-osm		[3]	[4]
Drupal	DrupalMappingKit	Collection of Drupal modules to support custom mapping	[5]	Drupal tutorial from MapBox MapBox
Drupal	Leaflet module	Leaflet module
Drupal	OpenLayers module	OpenLayers module
Joomla		injooosm
Joomla	OSModul	Module based on Leaflet and supports markers			[6]
Java Server Faces	JSF2Leaf	Powered by Leaflet
Mediawiki	MultiMaps	Uses Leaflet or Google Maps API (configurable)	Wikimedia Gerrit	This wiki!	In the tutorial
MediaWiki	Simple image	Depends on a reliable map image provider like StaticMapLite used to be		This wiki!
MediaWiki	Slippy Map	Powered by OpenLayers		This wiki!	This wiki!
MediaWiki	Kartographer	Powered by Leaflet		MediaWiki wiki	Wikivoyage
MediaWiki	Maps	Powered by OpenLayers		Manual
MediaWiki	Semantic Maps	Requires Semantic MediaWiki		Manual
MoinMoin	moinmoinosm	Macro for MoinMoin	[7]	[8]	Flisol
Novius OS	Ounziw OSM	iframe style OSM map	GitHub
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware	built-in	Via OpenLayers
Typo3		[9]	DE:Typo3
WordPress	OSM WordPress Plugin	Also adds gpx and kml files	Download	Simple sample	Plugin Blog

See also:

• Cartaro is a framework for embedding maps in different CMSes, especially Drupal.

Sources of tiles

OpenStreetMap tile servers

Typically these examples show you how to use the OpenStreetMap tile servers. Your site serves up the HTML and the JavaScript (maybe) but the tile images of the map are still fetched by the browser from our servers. You must do this in accordance with the tile usage policy. The tile service comes with no guarantee as to availability or speed (if you expect particularly heavy demand, please contact the community to discuss your requirements first).

Alternative tile servers

Alternative tile providers (with their own usage policies) are available. Some of them are combining OSM data with their own imagery and/or applying different colours and styles of map details.

See Slippy map tilenames#Tile servers, TMS for a list of some tile providers.

Your own map tiles

For ultimate flexibility, OpenStreetMap also gives you the unique ability to generate your own map tiles — styled any way you like — from our data.

• See Switch2Osm.org for more information on serving your own tiles.
• TileLauncher is a free out-of-the-box styled-tileserver for Amazon EC2. In a few clicks, choose your theme colours, your Amazon Instance type, your region, enter your credentials and press "Launch". [10]