The Superatlas is a combination of the excellent maps of basemap.de and OpenStreetMap (OSM) data to get the best of both worlds. The map is intended to be used as an offline map on a smartphone with OruxMaps. This repository contains all files requied to create and use the maps, but not the maps itself. For usage guidance and detailed explanations, please read my blog posts.
The process of creating these maps is:
- Download the OSM data for the relevant region from Geofrabrik
- Use tilemaker to select the relevant OSM data and put them into an mbtiles database file
- Download the basemap.de data (recommended: map data plus contour lines) into additional mbtiles files (e.g. using QGIS, or my PBFdownloader)
- Put Glyphs, Sprites, style file and mbtiles into the OruxMaps mapfiles directory and refresh data sources
This respository contains:
- The config.json for the tilemaker process
- The process.lua LUA script for tilemaker OSM data prcessing
- The sprite files - please note that some icons used are published by BKG under CC BY 4.0 license - all other icons are from public domain sources or self-made
- The glyphs, which are based on Google Fonts and the Deja Vu font project
- The Mapbox/Maplibre JSON style file, which is based off and significantly extended from the basemap.de color map and relief style files, published by BKG under CC BY 4.0 license
More information can be found in my blog post series.
The work published here contains data under the following copyrights:
- Style files and sprite (parts):
- © GeoBasis-DE / BKG (2025) CC BY 4.0 - see also BKG Nutzungsbedingungen
- © GeoBasis-DE / BKG (2025) dl-de/by-2-0
- Map icons CC-0 from SJJB Management
- Fonts:
- Deja Vu fonts are under free licensing according to the Bitstream Vera Font licensing and Tavmjong Bah Glyph licensing - Copyright (c) 2003 by Bitstream, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Bitstream Vera is a trademark of Bitstream, Inc., and Copyright (c) 2006 by Tavmjong Bah. All Rights Reserved. All changes made by the DejaVu project are public domain. Font licensing information also to be found here.
- Noto fonts are under SIL Open Font license 1.1 - full information on Open Font license can be found here.
- Roboto fonts are under SIL Open Font license 1.1 - full information on Open Font license can be found here.
- Tilemaker config file and process.lua are based on the examples given by the Tilemaker project under FTWPL - see also here
- My own creations, which I declare public domain CC-0. If you use or distribute my work, or distrubute follow-up work based on mine, I kindly ask you to give me credit by mentioning my name and/or link to my blog with URL https://projects.webvoss.de - or specifically to the Superatlas blog post with URL https://projects.webvoss.de/2024/08/03/next-generation-perfect-offline-hiking-maps-superatlas-goes-vector-part-i-introduction/
The individual license texts are included in the subdirectories as required by the license maintainers.