Royalty-Free License

This is the standard license you receive when purchasing a map from our site.

Allowed:

• Use our maps in personal and commercial projects not for resale. These projects can include but are not limited to print media, promotional material and advertising, posters, t-shirt designs, merchandise and so on.
• For resale, it is allowed to use the maps within a wider design. The map should have a small and incidental part of the design.

Not allowed:

• Share the maps/files directly or within items/goods where they can be extracted in their original form.
• Share the maps with others. This is a single user license. Please contact us to enquire about multi-user licenses.
• Use maps within designs/products  for resale where the map is the primary element, such as shirts, posters, wall maps, atlases or any other product where the map is prominent and other elements are incidental.

Contact us if you have any doubt whether  your intended use of our maps is covered with our royalty-free license.

Extended License

Use our maps as the primary element in items for resale.

Contact us for more info about our affordable extended licenses.

Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0)

Our free maps come with the most accommodating Creative Commons License. In order to use these maps, you need to give attribution. Failing to do so will revoke your license.

You must give an appropriate credit to onestopmap.com. If used on a website the preferred way of attribution would be a link back to https://www.onestopmap.com. The anchor-text could be something like ‘Map of China by One Stop Map’.

Allowed for any purpose, even commercially:

• Share: copy and redistribute the maps in any medium or format
• Adapt: remix, transform and build upon the material

Full Legal Code for this Creative Commons License.

When it comes to naming geographic features we tend to follow the standards set in our source data, which in turn has been vetted by a team of international volunteers, using authorative sources.

When in doubt, we consult others in our field. Ultimately we want to follow the internationally accepted geographic names as much as possible.

Yes. When mapping the world, One Stop Map makes use of free and open data sources available on the web. The sources are of high quality and the result of many volunteers, including us.

Our Layer Names are self-explanatory. If, however, you need more information about these layers, don't hesitate to contact us.
Printable maps do not contain layers.

Yes, of course. Just contact us with your enquiries and we will get in touch with you shortly with a non-commital offer.

Our Maps:
Features and Technical Stuff

Printable Maps | Vector Maps

We offer digital maps in two options: printable and editable vector format.
Each of these options has its own characteristics, and they come in several file formats.
Find out more in detail below.

Printable Map

High-quality JPEG and non-layered PDF.
With a high-quality JPEG and non-layered PDF you can be sure to always get the sharpest prints possible, no matter what size you need. Use our printable maps in print design, in your new book, as a wall map in the classroom, and much more.

JPEG XL

 6000 pixels wide

• Use in your favorite software
• Send to printing company or print it yourself
• Add your custom logo or other stuff
• Incorporate in your design
• Large adds need only 100dpi

PDF (non-layered)

Scale to any size you want without losing quality.
This PDF is a vector file. You can scale it to any size you want without losing quality. Editing this PDF is possible though limited due to the nature of the file: no layers and text is outlined.
You can open this PDF in Adobe Illustrator and select/edit all objects. But if you need to make lots of edits it is probably better to go for the layered vector option.

• Vector File
• Scalable to any size you want
• Compatible with most software
• Small edits are doable
• Incorporate in your design

Scaling a non-layered PDF with a ‘Shaded Relief’ (bitmap/photo layer) is limited to the quality of the relief: 6000 px wide.

Vector Map

Adobe Illustrator AI, EPS and PDF.
Stay in full control while editing a map.

Fully layered

Layers make it easy to navigate the maps. All objects, where applicable, have names. It is easy to select a particular country, city and much more. Just click on the object with the appropriate name and you are done.

Scalable to any size

Vector Maps are perfect when you need to zoom in or scale. They stay crisp and clear at any size.

Edit any way you want

All objects are selectable. Give them your colors, stroke, special effects and much more. Text is real text. You are only limited by the graphic software you use. We recommend Adobe Illustrator.

File Formats

Upon purchase of a vector map, you get following file formats: Adobe Illustrator CS3 AI, Adobe Illustrator CS3 EPS, Adobe PDF layered, Adobe PDF non layered and JPEG XL (6000px wide @300dpi). You can always contact us if you need another file format. We are glad if we can help you out..