Openmaps.fr is a free Tile Map Service based on OpenStreetMap datas providing 2 maps:
All styles and code are free and OpenSource (Check each one's specific license) on their github's repo
It was meant for that. However, there are no guarantees: the service might stop any time, or I might block IP or web site if there are too much requests.
If you include tiles from tile.openmaps.fr in your project, you must accept and respect the Tile usage policy where you will also find the TMS URLs for those two map styles.
Since ~2011, due to increasing mass download applications targeting and hampering the OpenHikingMap server I had to take measures in order to give priority to "browsing users". The current (since 2023) limit is that asking more than 1000 not already rendered tiles or 4000 tiles (Total) will get your connection throttled to 0.2 Tile per seconds or 0.5 per seconds respectively. I am sad to take such measures which could well lead to collateral damage but unfortunately I haven't a strong enough server to handle that CPU load. (live config should be in the config/common-for-tiles.conf file)
Current mod_tile config:
ModTileThrottlingTiles 4000 0.5
ModTileThrottlingRenders 1000 0.2
Current server hosting the map is kindly provided by Gplservice, the company I work for, but during 2026 it might be decomissionned and shut down:
Also, unfortunately, this server is too slow for regular imports, too slow for high usage mainly because of the spinning disks. Such a setup requires NVMe drives.
That is why, as of 2025-10-21, I'm searching for alternatives. Either in the form of the cheapest server I can rent, or, if I get enough funds, 2 identical servers to organise redundancy and failover in case of problems, or during re-import or any type of upgrades.
To help financing for server costs and maintaining the service functional, please check the Funding openmaps.fr page.
Those maps are generated by mapnik in millions of png image 256x256 tiles, storing all of them world wide would be close to impossible, but, see the Tile usage policy it is possible on small part, however since there are limits for downloads you will only be able to collect small areas.
Indeed, the data from OpenStreetMap are re-imported manually every two years or so. And it is not by choice, but by constraint : My server's storage are rotative disks and the whole import process takes around 3 weeks... (yes, you read it well, that is a 3 consecutive weeks non stop import !)
During that time the server is disk I/O saturated and all others operations on it are slown down as hell. And that is why I rarely update datas. To give perspective, when I had access to large enough NVMe drives, the exact same process took around 20 hours.