About us
We wanted maps without a licence lawyer
Cartline started as an internal tile server for a logistics company that could not agree terms with its map vendor.
Origin
The licence was the product
Every commercial map vendor we evaluated priced on map views, audited caching, and charged extra to put the map in something you sell. The data underneath was open. So we built the pipeline, and then published the outputs, because a map platform you cannot leave is not infrastructure.
- Self-hosting is supported, documented and priced honestly
- No caching restrictions and no per-view licence
- We contribute fixes upstream to OpenStreetMap
An internal tile server
One country, one warehouse network.
Public API
Planet builds go daily.
PMTiles downloads
Self-hosting becomes a one-file affair.
Routing and geocoding
The full stack from one dataset.
3.1 B tiles a month
And 82 GB of planet, every day.
How we work
Boring on purpose
We would rather run software that is three years old and understood than something new that pages us at 04:00.
Own the path
We buy transit from multiple carriers and peer directly wherever it is possible, so a single bad hop is never a single point of failure.
Write it down
Every incident gets a public write-up. Every design decision gets an RFC. Institutional memory beats heroics.
Some of the people behind it
A quarter of the company has been here since the first rack.
We are hiring
Remote-first across EU time zones, with a small office network for people who prefer one.