The EU location platform: map tiles, geocoding, routing and places — one key
Tilezza is a full location stack hosted in the European Union. Your product gets the map, the address search, the route and the "what’s nearby" answer from a single API key — and your visitor’s browser never talks to a non-EU server.
Tilezza is an EU-hosted location platform: vector and raster map tiles, typo-tolerant geocoding, routing and a places API with photos, metered on one key, with no cookies and no third parties.
Four services, one key
Everything is metered in plain tile-units on the same key — no separate products, no separate invoices.
Map tile API — vector and raster
MVT vector tiles for MapLibre GL and pre-rendered PNG for Leaflet, from OpenStreetMap data. 10 built-in styles with URL-based colour overrides; zoom 0–19; Europe pre-warmed; sub-millisecond cache hits. 1 unit per vector tile, 3 per raster.
Geocoding API — house-number precise
Forward and reverse geocoding. Where the address is mapped you get the exact building: Austria is practically complete (official BEV data in OSM), Hungary is strong in cities. 2 units per request.
Smart search — built for type-ahead
Typo-tolerant ("mezokvoesd" finds Mezőkövesd), city-first ranking, multiple ranked results and a precision field. Missing house numbers are interpolated between the nearest known ones; street-level hits return the street geometry so you can highlight the whole street — like the big real-estate portals do.
Routing API — 7 countries
Car, bicycle and pedestrian routing with turn-by-turn instructions in your language, across Hungary, Austria, Croatia, Slovakia, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia. Returns distance, time and the geometry ready to draw. 8 units per route.
Places API — nearby, with photos
"What’s nearby?" for Hungary and Austria: 384,000 places in 20 categories, distance-sorted with a notability boost. Photos are served from our EU servers with author and licence attached — first-party, GDPR-clean. 4 units per request.
See it live
Geocoding demo →
type an address with typos, get ranked suggestions, house-number precision and whole-street highlighting
Routing demo →
click a start and a destination — route, distance, time and turn-by-turn instructions, car / bicycle / on foot
Places demo →
click anywhere in Hungary or Austria, get the neighbourhood with photos and credit lines
3D map demo →
extruded buildings from our tiles, orbit camera, live wildfire and earthquake layers, a drivable car
The GDPR part, measured
Everything is first-party from EU servers: tiles, fonts, libraries, search, photos. No cookie is set, visitor IP addresses are never stored, and there is no third party to disclose in your privacy policy. We measured it with a clean browser profile: pages running fully on Tilezza contact 0–1 external services before consent — a typical map-portal page contacts 15.
Pricing in one table
One meter, plain units — you always know what a feature costs before you build it.
| Operation | Tile-units |
|---|---|
| Vector tile (MVT) | 1 |
| Raster tile (PNG) | 3 |
| Retina raster tile | 5 |
| Geocoding / smart search request | 2 |
| Places request | 4 |
| Place photo | 1 |
| Route | 8 |
Frequently asked questions
Is this a Google Maps alternative?
For most products, yes: map display, address search, routing and nearby places are covered, from EU servers, without consent banners. What we do not offer: Street View and worldwide routing (currently 7 Central European countries).
Do I need separate keys for geocoding, routing and places?
No — one key does everything, and one meter counts everything in tile-units. Domain locking protects the key even though it is visible client-side.
How precise is the geocoding?
Where OSM has the house number, you get the building itself. Austria is practically complete; in Hungary the smart-search endpoint interpolates missing numbers between the nearest known ones and never jumps to a far-away wrong match — if the number cannot be estimated, it stays on the street and tells you so in the precision field.
Which countries does routing cover?
Hungary, Austria, Croatia, Slovakia, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia — car, bicycle and pedestrian profiles with turn-by-turn instructions. Need another country? Ask; the pipeline extends per country.
Where do the place photos come from?
Wikimedia Commons, filtered to entries with a clean licence; every photo response carries the author, the licence and a source link, and the image bytes are served from our EU servers — your visitor never connects to a third party.
What does the free tier include?
Vector tiles without limits typical for evaluation, plus the styles API. Geocoding, routing and places are on paid plans — tell us your traffic and we tell you the number.
Two minutes to a working map
Grab a free key, drop two lines into Leaflet or MapLibre, and add search, routing and places when you need them — same key, same meter.