This was our very first vector tileset. Originally designed to power the Transport layer, it’s also useful for general-purpose maps since it contains roads and paths and is reasonably lightweight compared to the thunderforest.outdoors-v1 layer. It’s a good place to start.
The tilejson endpoint for this vector tileset is
https://tile.thunderforest.com/thunderforest.transport-v1.json?apikey={apikey}
Simplified water-polygon coastlines for drawing at low zooms
Coastlines as water-polygons
Green spaces - a mixture of parks, gardens, woods and forests
Large-area bodies of water, used for outlines
Bodies of water, used for outlines
Rivers, streams and canals
Large-area bodies of water, used for polygon fills
Bodies of water, used for polygon fills
Marshes and wetlands
Ferry routes
no description yet
Runway and taxiway lines
Buildings
Minor roads, from tertiary onwards
Major roads, and their links
Paths, tracks, steps etc
Railway platforms
Railway platform areas
Railway sidings
Railways, monorails, subways etc.
Buildings that are train stations
Bus stop zones, collected by name
Bus route and trolley bus route lines
Country Borders from Natural Earth
State borders from Natural Earth
Country centroids, for label placement
State centroids, for label placement
Cities from the points table
Citie centroids from the polygon table
Place centroids from the polygon table
Places from the point table
Railway station polygons, used for icons
Railway station points, used for icons
Labels for railway stations defined as areas
Labels for railway stations defined as points
Labels for bus stop zones
Labels for place areas
Labels for place points
Bus stop positions
Bus stop labels
Labels for bus routes
Labels for trolleybus routes
The name of railway platforms
Labels for major roads and links
Labels for minor roads
Labels for paths, tracks, steps etc