Mapbox 

Light

Mapbox Light is a subtle map designed to provide geographic context while highlighting the data on your analytics dashboard, data visualization, or data overlay.

Composed by experienced cartographic designers, the Light Classic Style Template saves developers countless hours they would have spent building a similar base map to tell their location story.

Mapbox 

Light

Mapbox Light is a subtle map designed to provide geographic context while highlighting the data on your analytics dashboard, data visualization, or data overlay.

Composed by experienced cartographic designers, the Light Classic Style Template saves developers countless hours they would have spent building a similar base map to tell their location story.

Roadways

Highly organized road data, designed to present a clearly legible hierarchy of all road types across a wide zoom range.

Administrative boundaries

A global political and administrative boundary layer.

Built features

Building footprints, rail stations, urban parks, land use, famous landmarks, and neighborhood stores.

Natural features

Rivers, lakes, streams, oceans, coastal boundaries, parks, land cover, and beaches.

Places

A complete hierarchy of location labels, from countries and states down to villages and neighborhoods.

Terrain

Vivid hillshading delivers visually tactile topography for outdoor and active lifestyle apps.

Mapbox fact #1

Mount Everest rises 40cm per century!

Specialized color systems

Our cartographers have created two tightly constrained color palettes that use slight shifts in hue and value to provide depth and space without overwhelming overlaid content.

Mapbox Streets data

Mapbox Light uses the same vector tile source as our general-purpose maps and contains the full range of geographic information required to provide context for overlays.

Optimized styling

Mapbox Light is specially designed to show a full set of cartographic features without distracting from your content. Our designers have modified every element of these maps – thinning line widths, lowering land use, label and settlement densities, reducing contrast – to make sure they always complement your project.

Globe View at low zoom levels

Mapbox Light defaults to Globe View at low zoom levels, including fog and atmospheric properties, offering you an alternative to the flat and skewed Mercator Projection when aiming to realistically display visual information that is continental in scale.