MapIndex in numbers

Every map on MapIndex was made by someone who cared about a place: a cycling club planning its season, a family’s road trip, a neighbourhood listing its defibrillators. Together they draw an unexpected picture of what people find worth mapping. These are its numbers.

2,883,927maps you can search

6,255,299maps found

46% of all maps found are shown

• 16,932,635,616coordinate pairs
• 141,884,464lines and areas drawn
• 90,959,187,698My Maps views

Found and shown

MapIndex has found more than 6 million maps, yet shows fewer than half of them. Search should lead to maps worth opening, so a map is only shown when it says what it is about and holds something to look at. The largest group is nearly empty: a single pin dropped to try the tool, or a map started and never filled. Many have gone offline since someone shared their link, deleted by their authors or made private. Others carry only the default name, such as “Untitled map”, and too few named places to tell what they show. Some are tests and advertising. MapIndex looks at every map again from time to time, so a map that is filled, named or published again later appears in search.

1. Shown on MapIndex 2,883,927 · findable in search 46%
2. Too little on them 1,369,347 · only a point or two, or nothing at all 22%
3. Offline 1,191,955 · deleted or made private since they were shared 19%
4. Untitled 540,539 · no title of their own and too few named places 8.6%
5. Tests and spam 269,505 · made to try things out, or advertising 4.3%

Where maps are found

Nobody keeps a list of all the maps people make. MapIndex follows the links people leave behind. Most come from the web’s memory: the Wayback Machine and Common Crawl have archived billions of web pages, and every page that once linked a map still leads to it. uMap is open, so its servers can be asked for every public map directly. Hundreds of thousands of maps were found through short links, rescued by the URLTeam archivists before the services that made them shut down. Then come the places where people talk: Reddit, Wikipedia, Telegram, YouTube and X. Many maps were found more than once, but most of them by a single source alone.

1. Wayback Machine web pages archived since 1996 · 67% found only here 2,485,191
2. Common Crawl billions of web pages, crawl by crawl · 68% found only here 2,383,052
3. uMap servers every public map, server by server · 100% found only here 1,765,957
4. URLTeam short links saved before their services shut down · 79% found only here 421,304
5. Reddit posts and comments since 2005 · 32% found only here 43,913
6. Other maps maps that link to further maps · 53% found only here 19,942
7. X posts linking a map · 39% found only here 9,058
8. Wikipedia links in articles of every language · 6.8% found only here 4,791
9. Telegram public channels and groups · 15% found only here 1,886
10. YouTube video descriptions · 32% found only here 764
11. Visitors maps submitted on MapIndex · 62% found only here 8
12. Bluesky posts linking a map · 100% found only here 4

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Source	Maps	Found only here	Shown
Wayback Machine	2,485,191	1,660,714	1,058,467 (43%)
Common Crawl	2,383,052	1,629,399	1,356,507 (57%)
uMap servers	1,765,957	1,762,511	715,866 (41%)
URLTeam	421,304	334,383	207,769 (49%)
Reddit	43,913	14,210	26,313 (60%)
Other maps	19,942	10,506	14,651 (73%)
X	9,058	3,564	8,255 (91%)
Wikipedia	4,791	324	3,870 (81%)
Telegram	1,886	288	1,481 (79%)
YouTube	764	245	746 (98%)
Visitors	8	5	8 (100%)
Bluesky	4	4	0 (0%)

Two kinds of maps

The maps on MapIndex come from two services. Google My Maps is the one most people know: easy to start, made for a handful of pins. uMap is built on OpenStreetMap and loved by people who map in earnest. Google My Maps has three quarters of the maps, yet uMap maps hold two thirds of everything drawn: a uMap map has six times as many objects on average.

• Google My Maps
• OpenStreetMap uMap

Maps 75%25%

Objects 34%66%

Coordinate pairs 29%71%

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Measure	Google My Maps	OpenStreetMap uMap
Maps	2,168,054	715,873
Objects	132,168,197	257,305,223
Coordinate pairs	4,884,935,289	12,047,700,327

On Google My Maps, people mostly drop pins. On uMap, half of all objects are lines and areas: routes, districts, flood zones, bike lanes.

• Points
• Lines
• Areas

Google My Maps Points 88%Lines 6.8%Areas 5.6%

OpenStreetMap uMap Points 51%Lines 25%Areas 24%

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Provider	Points	Lines	Areas
Google My Maps	115,942,873	8,954,027	7,346,179
OpenStreetMap uMap	131,720,965	63,501,375	62,082,883

Where in the world

Maps reach into 250 countries and territories: 5,103 into Antarctica, and 1,891 into the Vatican, more than twice as many as it has residents. Counted where most of its objects lie, nearly every map belongs to one country. The United States leads, just ahead of France: uMap was born in the French OpenStreetMap community, and French schools, towns and associations use it widely.

1. 1 to 99
2. 100 to 999
3. 1,000 to 9,999
4. 10,000 to 99,999
5. 100,000 or more
6. None

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Country	Maps	Maps reaching into it
United States	464,596	519,350
France	428,714	520,009
Japan	304,263	334,377
Germany	181,465	282,506
Spain	147,056	218,913
Italy	134,404	218,523
United Kingdom	131,009	201,761
Canada	72,806	131,227
Australia	45,547	80,377
Brazil	44,517	79,479
Poland	43,440	92,768
Russian Federation	38,781	78,788
Netherlands	36,017	92,385
Belgium	35,347	104,355
Argentina	29,296	56,413
Taiwan	28,305	42,084
Mexico	27,289	65,281
Greece	26,431	61,563
Switzerland	26,333	98,447
Portugal	24,564	62,560
Thailand	24,062	49,869
Austria	23,843	81,484
India	23,468	58,740
Czechia	20,388	60,402
Türkiye	18,968	57,878
Ukraine	18,626	42,733
Sweden	17,597	54,432
Hungary	17,350	50,511
Indonesia	16,329	39,014
Norway	16,023	44,856
China	15,586	53,343
Denmark	14,052	47,156
Colombia	13,529	36,272
Ireland	13,282	42,792
Vietnam	12,908	32,012
New Zealand	12,827	31,033
Croatia	12,044	41,618
Finland	10,665	36,107
Chile	10,402	35,165
Morocco	10,173	34,247
Peru	9,987	33,532
Hong Kong	9,617	24,787
Iceland	8,805	21,973
Romania	8,420	36,470
Malaysia	8,349	28,677
South Africa	8,041	32,249
Philippines	7,340	21,451
Slovakia	7,157	32,042
South Korea	6,997	25,731
Slovenia	6,483	31,172
Israel	5,619	24,182
Bulgaria	5,382	27,735
Singapore	5,175	22,085
United Arab Emirates	4,690	19,951
Lithuania	4,615	22,129
Egypt	4,596	29,037
Costa Rica	4,536	17,086
Ecuador	4,502	19,970
Estonia	4,419	20,331
Sri Lanka	4,229	13,737
Iran	4,210	22,324
Georgia	4,125	17,321
Nepal	4,023	16,637
Latvia	3,729	19,965
Kenya	3,578	19,264
Tanzania	3,424	16,250
Belarus	3,274	17,120
Serbia	3,159	23,661
Luxembourg	3,045	25,095
Syria	2,975	16,548
Bolivia	2,872	19,096
Uruguay	2,850	14,980
Cambodia	2,831	17,689
Uganda	2,673	12,542
Cyprus	2,641	12,936
Albania	2,520	14,722
Senegal	2,471	12,966
Pakistan	2,388	19,037
Malta	2,376	11,704
Guatemala	2,373	13,973
Réunion	2,360	13,375
Kazakhstan	2,357	18,483
Myanmar	2,313	15,500
Jordan	2,216	15,232
Tunisia	2,201	17,051
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2,106	17,331
Saudi Arabia	2,059	17,475
Cuba	2,043	12,112
Montenegro	2,043	12,882
Côte d'Ivoire	1,987	9,819
Namibia	1,985	10,992
Algeria	1,893	19,303
Madagascar	1,877	10,614
Laos	1,664	12,714
Venezuela	1,616	15,379
Mongolia	1,535	11,482
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	1,519	13,265
Armenia	1,472	9,639
Dominican Republic	1,447	11,225
Puerto Rico	1,413	11,557
Burkina Faso	1,397	8,891
French Polynesia	1,369	6,740
Oman	1,340	10,645
Panama	1,283	13,797
Iraq	1,262	14,656
Afghanistan	1,255	11,193
Bangladesh	1,247	11,532
Ethiopia	1,242	13,280
Uzbekistan	1,231	11,730
Kyrgyzstan	1,230	8,999
Nicaragua	1,192	9,952
North Macedonia	1,121	12,577
Mali	1,102	11,996
Nigeria	1,079	14,282
Guadeloupe	1,022	10,109
Benin	947	7,072
Mauritius	921	6,022
Haiti	915	7,473
Paraguay	912	10,995
Lebanon	875	11,329
Azerbaijan	861	10,565
Maldives	825	3,602
Rwanda	823	7,188
Cameroon	818	9,826
Botswana	815	8,818
Moldova	810	8,721
Niger	768	9,467
Martinique	767	10,029
Togo	759	5,984
Antarctica	748	5,107
Palestine, State of	729	8,973
Honduras	681	10,066
Andorra	676	7,457
Libya	673	12,304
Bhutan	654	5,152
Bahamas	642	7,276
El Salvador	620	7,603
French Guiana	618	9,616
Greenland	605	6,279
Tajikistan	598	6,502
New Caledonia	589	5,513
Ghana	584	10,775
Belize	560	5,783
Faroe Islands	534	3,215
Seychelles	533	3,470
Guinea	532	6,308
Macao	517	3,913
Cabo Verde	502	3,792
Mozambique	469	9,048
Jamaica	461	6,654
Angola	442	7,566
Qatar	424	7,123
Sudan	423	10,921
Zimbabwe	418	9,079
Zambia	416	8,875
Aruba	400	2,714
Barbados	378	3,865
Svalbard and Jan Mayen	377	2,858
Monaco	375	11,875
Papua New Guinea	369	5,787
Antigua and Barbuda	362	3,150
Trinidad and Tobago	345	4,694
XK	344	6,927
Mauritania	331	9,079
Fiji	319	4,426
Yemen	318	7,422
Somalia	310	7,124
Virgin Islands, U.S.	307	3,911
Malawi	304	5,484
Lesotho	282	3,492
Mayotte	269	4,737
Guam	260	3,115
Bahrain	250	4,250
Chad	246	7,969
Djibouti	238	3,558
Curaçao	229	2,766
Congo	216	6,548
South Sudan	212	5,953
Gabon	208	5,461
North Korea	205	5,209
Virgin Islands, British	198	2,173
Central African Republic	196	5,486
Turkmenistan	192	7,379
Saint Lucia	189	3,510
Guyana	186	5,692
Burundi	179	3,499
Kuwait	170	5,454
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	166	2,708
Vanuatu	166	2,899
Åland Islands	164	2,253
Isle of Man	162	3,478
Jersey	157	3,404
Guernsey	151	3,229
Samoa	151	1,793
Brunei Darussalam	149	3,197
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	143	1,805
Grenada	143	2,995
Timor-Leste	143	2,549
Saint Martin (French part)	142	2,732
Gambia	140	3,634
Sierra Leone	136	4,829
Bermuda	135	2,693
San Marino	121	3,443
Dominica	108	3,342
Cayman Islands	104	2,454
Suriname	103	5,406
Solomon Islands	98	2,366
Liechtenstein	94	4,909
Turks and Caicos Islands	94	1,680
Saint Barthélemy	86	1,890
Guinea-Bissau	86	2,959
Cook Islands	78	1,627
Tonga	78	1,879
Eritrea	77	3,351
French Southern Territories	74	1,271
Saint Kitts and Nevis	73	2,452
Sao Tome and Principe	73	1,768
Northern Mariana Islands	72	1,603
Gibraltar	70	2,781
Micronesia, Federated States of	69	1,423
Liberia	67	4,559
Palau	67	1,651
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	64	2,378
Anguilla	62	1,421
Eswatini	60	3,298
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	58	1,706
Comoros	56	2,045
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	52	1,374
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	49	1,005
American Samoa	45	1,431
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	41	1,652
United States Minor Outlying Islands	37	870
Equatorial Guinea	33	2,478
Kiribati	30	1,148
Norfolk Island	29	779
Marshall Islands	18	1,276
Wallis and Futuna	18	1,182
Western Sahara	15	2,467
Montserrat	14	1,224
Nauru	14	998
British Indian Ocean Territory	10	770
Niue	10	892
Christmas Island	8	782
Tuvalu	7	774
Pitcairn	6	764
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	3	651
Heard Island and McDonald Islands	3	523
Tokelau	1	171
Bouvet Island	0	325
Holy See (Vatican City State)	0	1,891

Drawn object by object, the world lights up where people live and travel. Western Europe is covered almost completely, then come Japan, the eastern United States and the cities of South America.

Few objectsMany

1. United States 464,596
2. France 428,714
3. Japan 304,263
4. Germany 181,465
5. Spain 147,056
6. Italy 134,404
7. United Kingdom 131,009
8. Canada 72,806
9. Australia 45,547
10. Brazil 44,517
11. Poland 43,440
12. Russian Federation 38,781
13. Netherlands 36,017
14. Belgium 35,347
15. Argentina 29,296

Measured against population, France leads by far with one map for every 156 people, followed by Estonia, Spain, Slovenia and Belgium. Among the most populous countries, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Pakistan have the fewest maps per person: there is much left to map.

1. France 6,393
2. Estonia 3,331
3. Spain 3,124
4. Slovenia 3,105
5. Belgium 3,078
6. Switzerland 3,071
7. Norway 2,996
8. Croatia 2,961
9. Ireland 2,688
10. Austria 2,686
11. New Zealand 2,609
12. Greece 2,466
13. Denmark 2,415
14. Japan 2,410
15. Portugal 2,392

Most maps are close to home: more than half fit within one town or valley.

1. Local 1,675,979 · a town or valley 58%
2. Regional 652,467 · a region or province 23%
3. National 317,385 · a country 11%
4. Continental 113,003 · several countries 3.9%
5. Global 125,093 · the whole world 4.3%

What maps are about

To see what maps are about, MapIndex reads a random sample of maps and lets maps with similar titles and descriptions settle next to each other, wherever on Earth they are. The result is a landscape of its own: every summit is a topic, and the higher the ground, the more maps share it.

Swipe sideways to see the whole landscape.

Ways from A to B dominate. Travel routes, hikes, bike tours, walks, runs, bus lines and train journeys together make up about a quarter of all maps. Then come the places of everyday life: restaurants, schools, shops, clinics, festivals.

1. Travel routes 4.9%
2. Hiking routes 3.5%
3. Restaurants and bars 3.3%
4. Tourist attractions 3.3%
5. Personal trips 3.2%
6. Cycling routes 3.2%
7. Administrative boundaries 2.9%
8. Historic sites 2.9%
9. Beaches and coasts 2.9%
10. Personal places 2.9%
11. Outdoor destinations 2.9%
12. Festivals and events 2.8%
13. Neighborhood places 2.8%
14. Recycling points 2.8%
15. Walking routes 2.7%
16. Travel itineraries 2.7%
17. Business locations 2.7%
18. Schools 2.6%
19. Community projects 2.6%
20. City attractions 2.6%

Every country has a speciality. Japan maps parking more than twice as often as the world does, Germany and Poland map their railways, Spain its beaches, Taiwan its restaurants. Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands map their walks, and Brazil and Argentina their bus routes, four times as often as the world. In the United States, many maps show properties and developments: plots for sale, new homes, real estate listings.

1. United States Properties and developments 2.0×
2. France Community projects 1.6×
3. Japan Parking areas 2.6×
4. Germany Railway lines and stations 1.9×
5. Spain Beaches and coasts 1.8×
6. Italy Hiking routes 1.9×
7. United Kingdom Walking routes 2.6×
8. Canada Sports venues 1.6×
9. Australia Running routes 1.9×
10. Brazil Bus routes 4.7×
11. Poland Railway lines and stations 2.6×
12. Russian Federation Driving directions 2.0×
13. Belgium Walking routes 2.6×
14. Netherlands Walking routes 3.7×
15. Argentina Bus routes 3.9×
16. Taiwan Restaurants and bars 2.7×

When maps are made

Until 2023, more maps were made every year than the year before. The years since look quieter, partly because MapIndex finds a map once someone links it, and newer maps have had less time to be linked.

• Google My Maps
• OpenStreetMap uMap

17,356

1. 2016
13. 2017
25. 2018
37. 2019
49. 2020
61. 2021
73. 2022
85. 2023
97. 2024
109. 2025
121. 2026

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Year	Google My Maps	OpenStreetMap uMap
2014	0	7,732
2015	56,103	13,619
2016	133,112	20,649
2017	127,717	30,293
2018	141,842	41,994
2019	156,402	58,414
2020	152,303	69,812
2021	157,817	82,379
2022	160,823	86,132
2023	165,881	100,954
2024	115,562	95,459
2025	100,982	59,880
2026	94,120	45,028

Mapping is daytime and weekday work. Counted in the local time of the place a map shows, it starts at around 7 in the morning, peaks in the late morning and again in the afternoon, and fades towards midnight. Weekends are quiet: on Saturdays fewer than half as many maps are started as on a Tuesday, a hint that many maps are made at school, at work or for an association.

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 036912151821

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Day	Maps	Share
Mon	345,685	16%
Tue	365,535	17%
Wed	357,177	17%
Thu	350,964	17%
Fri	319,515	15%
Sat	173,243	8.2%
Sun	193,555	9.2%

Over the year, mapping peaks in March, in the middle of school and working terms, and December is the quietest month.

197,773

1. Jan
2. Feb
3. Mar
4. Apr
5. May
6. Jun
7. Jul
8. Aug
9. Sep
10. Oct
11. Nov
12. Dec

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Month	Maps	Share
Jan	167,932	8.2%
Feb	170,714	8.3%
Mar	197,773	9.6%
Apr	184,546	9.0%
May	187,871	9.1%
Jun	169,382	8.2%
Jul	161,349	7.8%
Aug	159,486	7.7%
Sep	168,867	8.2%
Oct	174,777	8.5%
Nov	168,219	8.2%
Dec	147,491	7.2%

Maps that live on

Most maps are made in one go: nearly nine in ten were never changed after the day they were made. The others live on, as their authors add places, close roads and move events. One map in 25 was still being changed more than a year after it was made, some of them more than five years later.

1. Never changed 1,859,875 · not after the day it was made 87%
2. Within a week 51,265 2.4%
3. Within a month 49,304 2.3%
4. Within a year 87,106 4.1%
5. In its second year 35,054 1.6%
6. Two to five years on 37,561 1.8%
7. More than five years on 9,619 0.5%

How much is on a map

Most maps are small: half of them hold no more than a dozen or so objects. A few are enormous. The largest maps carry hundreds of thousands of objects, mostly infrastructure and environmental data: water networks, cycling segments, slopes, coastal zones.

Google My Maps

OpenStreetMap uMap

1. 1
8. 10
18. 100
28. 1k
38. 10k
48. 100k
58. 1M

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Objects	Google My Maps	OpenStreetMap uMap
1	92,100 (4.2%)	37,718 (5.3%)
2	75,570 (3.5%)	24,384 (3.4%)
3	180,922 (8.3%)	37,995 (5.3%)
4	115,666 (5.3%)	28,965 (4.0%)
5	114,060 (5.3%)	30,362 (4.2%)
6–7	197,660 (9.1%)	54,034 (7.5%)
8–9	154,818 (7.1%)	45,058 (6.3%)
10–12	199,767 (9.2%)	54,499 (7.6%)
13–15	138,485 (6.4%)	41,121 (5.7%)
16–19	135,267 (6.2%)	41,350 (5.8%)
20–24	125,268 (5.8%)	37,900 (5.3%)
25–31	117,748 (5.4%)	37,827 (5.3%)
32–39	89,551 (4.1%)	29,171 (4.1%)
40–49	75,695 (3.5%)	25,968 (3.6%)
50–62	66,604 (3.1%)	24,570 (3.4%)
63–78	53,312 (2.5%)	21,554 (3.0%)
79–99	46,947 (2.2%)	19,633 (2.7%)
100–125	38,145 (1.8%)	16,547 (2.3%)
126–157	29,946 (1.4%)	13,575 (1.9%)
158–199	24,930 (1.1%)	12,443 (1.7%)
200–250	19,499 (0.9%)	10,822 (1.5%)
251–315	15,333 (0.7%)	9,606 (1.3%)
316–397	12,275 (0.6%)	8,378 (1.2%)
398–500	9,821 (0.5%)	7,135 (1.0%)
501–630	7,884 (0.4%)	6,377 (0.9%)
631–793	6,139 (0.3%)	5,239 (0.7%)
794–999	5,079 (0.2%)	4,585 (0.6%)
1k–1,258	4,489 (0.2%)	3,997 (0.6%)
1,259–1,584	3,402 (0.2%)	3,870 (0.5%)
1,585–1,994	3,109 (0.1%)	3,146 (0.4%)
1,995–2,511	2,715 (0.1%)	2,738 (0.4%)
2,512–3,161	1,478 (<0.1%)	2,442 (0.3%)
3,162–3,980	1,181 (<0.1%)	2,225 (0.3%)
3,981–5,011	988 (<0.1%)	1,872 (0.3%)
5,012–6,309	685 (<0.1%)	1,515 (0.2%)
6,310–7,942	513 (<0.1%)	1,350 (0.2%)
7,943–9,999	412 (<0.1%)	1,188 (0.2%)
10k–12,588	266 (<0.1%)	1,007 (0.1%)
12,589–15,848	163 (<0.1%)	790 (0.1%)
15,849–19,952	112 (<0.1%)	725 (0.1%)
19,953–25,118	30 (<0.1%)	528 (<0.1%)
25,119–31,622	4 (<0.1%)	513 (<0.1%)
31,623–39,810	7 (<0.1%)	377 (<0.1%)
39,811–50,118	5 (<0.1%)	234 (<0.1%)
50,119–63,095	3 (<0.1%)	170 (<0.1%)
63,096–79,432	0 (0%)	138 (<0.1%)
79,433–99,999	1 (<0.1%)	75 (<0.1%)
100k–125,892	0 (0%)	52 (<0.1%)
125,893–158,488	0 (0%)	34 (<0.1%)
158,489–199,525	0 (0%)	21 (<0.1%)
199,526–251,188	0 (0%)	17 (<0.1%)
251,189–316,227	0 (0%)	10 (<0.1%)
316,228–398,106	0 (0%)	9 (<0.1%)
398,107–501,186	0 (0%)	7 (<0.1%)
501,187–630,956	0 (0%)	2 (<0.1%)
630,957–794,327	0 (0%)	5 (<0.1%)
794,328–999,999	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
1M+	0 (0%)	0 (0%)

1. Infrastructure and Environmental Risks in Barrio Sarmiento and the Matanza-Riachuelo Basin783,209 objects · OpenStreetMap uMap
2. Walking, Cycling and Climbing Segments in France774,673 objects · OpenStreetMap uMap
3. Road and Terrain Slopes Over 7% in Northern France642,050 objects · OpenStreetMap uMap
4. Potential Coastal Functional Areas for Marine and Coastal Birds609,331 objects · OpenStreetMap uMap
5. European Places and Administrative Boundaries577,236 objects · OpenStreetMap uMap

Lines are where the largest maps get their size: one map of steep roads in northern France draws more than 600,000 of them.

1. Road and Terrain Slopes Over 7% in Northern France641,983 lines · OpenStreetMap uMap
2. Infrastructure and Environmental Risks in Barrio Sarmiento and the Matanza-Riachuelo Basin364,982 lines · OpenStreetMap uMap
3. Sports Facilities Across Europe349,743 lines · OpenStreetMap uMap
4. Iter Mobilities Map of Toulouse327,829 lines · OpenStreetMap uMap
5. PSSEN Final319,954 lines · OpenStreetMap uMap

Copies

Good maps get copied: a teacher hands out a map and every student saves their own, or a town reuses its neighbour’s map of shelters. About one map in twenty shown on MapIndex has near copies, and the most copied ones have hundreds. MapIndex shows each family of copies once in search.

1. Laure Bezit490 copies · OpenStreetMap uMap
2. Arawakan Languages of South America435 copies · OpenStreetMap uMap
3. Cultural Venues and Bookshops in Normandy260 copies · OpenStreetMap uMap
4. HiLights: Shelters, Bunkers and Historic Sites in Germany242 copies · OpenStreetMap uMap
5. Uninstalled Cable and Support-Filling Points in Côte-d’Or232 copies · OpenStreetMap uMap

How often maps are viewed

Google My Maps counts how often each map is opened, and these counts follow a steep curve. The typical map has been viewed a few thousand times, while one in a hundred maps gathers more than half of all views. Fifteen maps have passed 100 million views each: transit maps, charging stations and the maps people followed during the pandemic.

2. 1
9. 10
19. 100
29. 1k
39. 10k
49. 100k
59. 1M
69. 10M
79. 100M
89. 1G

Show the numbers

Views	Google My Maps
0	2,719 (0.1%)
1	204 (<0.1%)
2	171 (<0.1%)
3	17,994 (0.8%)
4	10,046 (0.5%)
5	5,106 (0.2%)
6–7	8,228 (0.4%)
8–9	4,829 (0.2%)
10–12	5,096 (0.2%)
13–15	4,230 (0.2%)
16–19	8,985 (0.4%)
20–24	14,688 (0.7%)
25–31	18,021 (0.8%)
32–39	19,204 (0.9%)
40–49	19,800 (0.9%)
50–62	21,210 (1.0%)
63–78	22,400 (1.0%)
79–99	25,220 (1.2%)
100–125	27,407 (1.3%)
126–157	29,992 (1.4%)
158–199	35,452 (1.6%)
200–250	38,453 (1.8%)
251–315	45,106 (2.1%)
316–397	52,283 (2.4%)
398–500	58,222 (2.7%)
501–630	64,485 (3.0%)
631–793	70,686 (3.3%)
794–999	77,012 (3.6%)
1k–1,258	81,715 (3.8%)
1,259–1,584	85,073 (3.9%)
1,585–1,994	87,218 (4.0%)
1,995–2,511	88,999 (4.1%)
2,512–3,161	88,758 (4.1%)
3,162–3,980	88,137 (4.1%)
3,981–5,011	86,345 (4.0%)
5,012–6,309	83,362 (3.8%)
6,310–7,942	79,728 (3.7%)
7,943–9,999	76,265 (3.5%)
10k–12,588	70,944 (3.3%)
12,589–15,848	66,549 (3.1%)
15,849–19,952	61,526 (2.8%)
19,953–25,118	56,199 (2.6%)
25,119–31,622	51,067 (2.4%)
31,623–39,810	45,830 (2.1%)
39,811–50,118	41,154 (1.9%)
50,119–63,095	35,839 (1.7%)
63,096–79,432	31,379 (1.4%)
79,433–99,999	27,294 (1.3%)
100k–125,892	23,212 (1.1%)
125,893–158,488	19,842 (0.9%)
158,489–199,525	16,616 (0.8%)
199,526–251,188	13,542 (0.6%)
251,189–316,227	11,284 (0.5%)
316,228–398,106	9,254 (0.4%)
398,107–501,186	7,454 (0.3%)
501,187–630,956	6,050 (0.3%)
630,957–794,327	4,766 (0.2%)
794,328–999,999	3,641 (0.2%)
1M–1,258,924	2,938 (0.1%)
1,258,925–1,584,892	2,199 (0.1%)
1,584,893–1,995,261	1,735 (<0.1%)
1,995,262–2,511,885	1,292 (<0.1%)
2,511,886–3,162,277	945 (<0.1%)
3,162,278–3,981,071	656 (<0.1%)
3,981,072–5,011,871	550 (<0.1%)
5,011,872–6,309,572	408 (<0.1%)
6,309,573–7,943,281	291 (<0.1%)
7,943,282–9,999,999	190 (<0.1%)
10M–12,589,253	159 (<0.1%)
12,589,254–15,848,931	122 (<0.1%)
15,848,932–19,952,622	78 (<0.1%)
19,952,623–25,118,863	42 (<0.1%)
25,118,864–31,622,776	54 (<0.1%)
31,622,777–39,810,716	25 (<0.1%)
39,810,717–50,118,722	27 (<0.1%)
50,118,723–63,095,733	19 (<0.1%)
63,095,734–79,432,822	11 (<0.1%)
79,432,823–99,999,999	7 (<0.1%)
100M–125,892,540	5 (<0.1%)
125,892,541–158,489,318	5 (<0.1%)
158,489,319–199,526,230	0 (0%)
199,526,231–251,188,642	3 (<0.1%)
251,188,643–316,227,765	0 (0%)
316,227,766–398,107,170	1 (<0.1%)
398,107,171–501,187,233	0 (0%)
501,187,234–630,957,343	0 (0%)
630,957,344–794,328,234	1 (<0.1%)
794,328,235–999,999,999	0 (0%)
1G+	0 (0%)

1. Mumbai Metro and Railway Network735 million views · Google My Maps
2. COVID-19 Community Areas and Case Risk in Taiwan367 million views · Google My Maps
3. Global Spread of the Wuhan Coronavirus232 million views · Google My Maps
4. Confirmed Coronavirus Cases and Suspected Locations Worldwide221 million views · Google My Maps
5. VinFast Fast DC Charging Stations in Vietnam203 million views · Google My Maps
6. Brazilian Polling Sections with Zero Bolsonaro Votes in 2022156 million views · Google My Maps
7. Russo-Ukrainian War: Territorial Advances and Combat Lines151 million views · Google My Maps
8. Miramagia Dragon Journey144 million views · Google My Maps
9. Travel Itinerary Across Egypt, China, Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean141 million views · Google My Maps
10. Reported Bedbug Incidents at Hotels in Japan131 million views · Google My Maps

About these numbers

Apart from the figures of maps found and shown and of where they are found, every figure counts the maps you can find in MapIndex’s search on the day named at the top, as their providers describe them. A map counts for the country where most of its objects lie. Google My Maps dated maps made before 2016 to its move to the new My Maps, so their dates come from the last time they were saved, and maps last saved before July 2015 have no date at all. Topics are estimated from a random sample, so their shares are close but not exact. Country borders come from Natural Earth, population figures too.

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