The Hand-Drawn Map Style

Here at MapBox Mania nosotros beloved around of the custom map styles that OpenStreetMap developers conduct maintain designed. So today nosotros desire to part 3 of our favorite custom map styles created amongst OpenStreetMap map tiles.


The Hand Drawn Map of Toulouse uses TileMill to customize the await of OpenStreetMap to practice a beautiful hand-drawn styled map. It is the lovingly created special on this map that assistance instruct far too hence special. From the post-it banking firm notation themed labels to the hand-sketched textures it is slow to genuinely fault this for a existent hand-drawn map.

The map's creator Karl Azémar has every bit good published an interesting post most how he created the hand-drawn agency (in French).


Space Station Earth is a gorgeous scientific discipline fiction themed map created amongst MapBox. The map changes urban meat names to infinite colonies, uses custom textures for route too edifice borders and uses over-sized markers for stores, parks, too other points of involvement to copy urban meat lights.


Stamen's Watercolor Map is rightly 1 of the most pop map styles. I've fifty-fifty seen this 1 popping upward inwards maps developed amongst the Google Maps API, swapping out the Google Map tiles for this beautiful OpenStreetMap. If yous similar the Watercolor Map agency yous should every bit good conduct maintain a await at Oregon State University's Crinkled Watercolor Map.