8 self-hosted Google Maps alternatives

Google Maps is Google's hosted mapping, navigation, and place-data service. These open-source apps let you replace Google Maps with software you host and control yourself.

Best self-hosted Google Maps alternatives

Traccar

Maps & GIS

Open-source GPS tracking platform

Replaces Google Maps, Life360

★ 7.6k Medium setup Apache-2.0

Mapnik

Maps & GIS

Toolkit for rendering raster map tiles from spatial data

Replaces Google Maps, Mapbox

★ 3.9k Hard setup LGPL-2.1

Protomaps

Maps & GIS

Serverless maps from a single PMTiles archive

Replaces Mapbox, Google Maps

★ 3k Medium setup BSD-3-Clause

Headway

Maps & GIS

Self-hostable maps stack you can run yourself

Replaces Google Maps

★ 3k Hard setup Apache-2.0

OpenStreetMap Website

Maps & GIS

The Rails application powering openstreetmap.org

Replaces Google Maps

★ 2.8k Hard setup GPL-2.0

Tangram

Maps & GIS

Flexible WebGL map rendering engine

Replaces Mapbox GL JS, Google Maps

★ 2.3k Medium setup MIT

OpenStreetMap Carto

Maps & GIS

The standard map style for OpenStreetMap rendering

Replaces Google Maps

★ 1.7k Hard setup CC0-1.0

openstreetmap-tile-server

Maps & GIS

Dockerized OpenStreetMap raster tile server

Replaces Google Maps

★ 1.5k Medium setup MIT

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Switching from Google Maps

Moving off Google Maps means trading a managed subscription for a service you run yourself. The payoff is ownership: no per-seat pricing, no vendor lock-in, and full control of your data. Start with the option above that matches your setup-difficulty comfort level — every app links to a detailed specs page and head-to-head comparisons.