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Map Settings

The Map tab controls which map engine and tile source TREK uses in the Trip Planner and Journey maps.

Note: The Atlas view always uses Leaflet regardless of this setting.

Map Settings

Where to find it

Open the user menu in the top navigation bar, select Settings, then the Map tab. Unlike the General tab, changes here are not saved as you make them — click Save Map when you are done.

Map provider

Choose the rendering engine:

Provider Description
Leaflet Classic 2D renderer. Works with any raster tile URL. No token.
Mapbox GL (Experimental) Vector tiles with 3D buildings and terrain support. Requires a Mapbox access token.
MapLibre GL Vector tiles from OpenFreeMap. No access token required — this is the reason to pick it over Mapbox GL.

Each GL provider stores its style in its own slot (mapbox_style for Mapbox GL, maplibre_style for MapLibre GL), so switching providers never clobbers the other one's style.

Leaflet — tile source

When Leaflet is selected, pick a preset or enter a custom tile URL.

Built-in presets:

Name URL
OpenStreetMap https://tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
OpenStreetMap DE https://tile.openstreetmap.de/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
CartoDB Light https://{s}.basemaps.cartocdn.com/light_all/{z}/{x}/{y}{r}.png
CartoDB Dark https://{s}.basemaps.cartocdn.com/dark_all/{z}/{x}/{y}{r}.png
Stadia Smooth https://tiles.stadiamaps.com/tiles/alidade_smooth/{z}/{x}/{y}{r}.png

You can also type any XYZ tile URL directly into the text field.

Admin: The admin can set a default map tile URL for all new users via the User Defaults tab in the Admin Panel. See Admin-Panel-Overview.

Mapbox GL — access token and style

Enter your public token (pk.*) from mapbox.com → Access tokens.

Required scopes are:

  • STYLES:TILES
  • STYLES:READ
  • FONTS:READ
  • DATASETS:READ
  • VISION:READ

If Mapbox GL is selected but no token is saved, the map area shows an empty state with a prompt to configure the token under Settings → Map → Mapbox GL.

Built-in style presets:

Style Tags
Mapbox Standard 3D, Apple-like
Standard Satellite 3D, Satellite
Streets 3D, Classic
Outdoors 3D, Terrain
Light 3D, Minimal
Dark 3D, Dark
Satellite 3D, Satellite
Satellite Streets 3D, Satellite
Navigation Day 3D, Apple-like
Navigation Night 3D, Dark

You can also enter a custom mapbox://styles/USER/ID URL directly.

3D Buildings & Terrain

Enables pitch and 3D buildings on all styles. Mapbox Standard and Standard Satellite ship their own building volumes, so TREK adds no extrusion layer there; every other style gets one injected. Terrain elevation (DEM-based height) is additionally applied on Satellite, Satellite Streets and Outdoors; Standard Satellite brings its own terrain from Mapbox and is left alone. The remaining styles get buildings but no terrain — including plain Mapbox Standard, whose built-in terrain TREK switches off — because the elevation data would cause route lines to visually drift away from the HTML place markers.

High Quality Mode (Experimental)

Enables antialiasing and globe projection for sharper edges. May impact performance on lower-end devices.

MapLibre GL — style

MapLibre GL renders OpenFreeMap vector tiles and needs no token at all, so there is no token field on this provider — just a style.

Built-in style presets:

Style URL
OpenFreeMap Liberty (default) https://tiles.openfreemap.org/styles/liberty
OpenFreeMap Bright https://tiles.openfreemap.org/styles/bright
OpenFreeMap Positron https://tiles.openfreemap.org/styles/positron

You can also type any https://tiles.openfreemap.org/… style URL. A style that is not an OpenFreeMap URL is rejected and replaced with Liberty when you save.

The 3D Buildings & Terrain and High Quality Mode toggles are Mapbox-only and are not shown for MapLibre GL.

Where a map opens

There is no default map center or zoom setting — it was removed in v3.4.0. Instead, every map works out its own opening camera from the places it is about to draw, so a trip in Japan opens on Japan instead of starting on the world view and then flying across the planet.

For each map, TREK takes the coordinates it is given and computes the center and zoom that frame them all:

  • Several places — the camera fits their bounding box. The zoom is capped (16 on Leaflet, 15 on the GL renderers) so a tight cluster does not open absurdly far in, and the center is taken in projected (Mercator) space rather than as an average of the latitudes, so the northernmost place does not fall out of frame.
  • A single place (or several stacked on the same spot) — there is no extent to fit, so it opens at city level: zoom 12 on Leaflet, 11 on the GL renderers.
  • Places spanning the date line — MapLibre GL and Mapbox GL wrap the world, so a trip covering Fiji and Samoa is framed as the 10°-wide arc it really is. Leaflet does not wrap, so it takes the plain west-to-east span instead.
  • Side panels — chrome overlaying the map shifts the center, so the places stay inside the part of the map you can actually see.
  • No usable coordinates — a brand-new trip with nothing placed yet has nothing to frame, so the map falls back to a world view (center 0, 0 at zoom 2).

The small map preview on this settings page is the one exception: it stays on a fixed city (Paris, zoom 16) so you can judge label density, 3D buildings and satellite texture. It is not a setting and no real map opens there.

See also