VersaTiles
Simplify vector map tile creation, hosting, and interaction
VersaTiles provides vital digital infrastructure for web maps, offering a free, flexible alternative to commercial services. Web maps are essential in fields like data journalism, research, and emergency response, but current commercial solutions are often costly, proprietary, and pose privacy concerns. VersaTiles addresses this by dividing the complex process of map creation, distribution, and visualization into manageable layers, ensuring interoperability and scalability. With its open, transparent approach, VersaTiles promotes digital sovereignty in Europe, empowering public institutions, media, and developers with an accessible, high-quality map infrastructure that avoids vendor lock-in and supports free access to geospatial data.
- The project's own website: https://versatiles.org
This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).
