All downloadable maps are subject to the licensing terms set out below.
Updated 12 June 2026
1. The Licence
Maproom grants its Licensees a perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce — in whole or in part, and whether in their initial state of supply or edited, modified or augmented in any way — Maproom’s map bases an unlimited number of times for the permitted uses described below without incurring additional fees or royalties.
2. Permitted Uses
– apps as illustrative content
– e-books and printed books
– calendars and greetings cards
– consumer merchandise
– magazines, newspapers, trade journals, educational materials and editorial publications
– marketing and promotional material
– printed posters distributed within the Licensee’s organisation and stakeholders
– printed posters for commercial sale provided that the map is serving as supporting artwork for content created by the Licensee (see clause 3c below)
– reports and presentations
– video or TV graphics and set dressing
– wall and billboard printing
– websites as illustrative content only (see clause 3b below)
(No limit on print run applies to any printed format)
3. Prohibited Uses
a) Licensees are strictly prohibited from utilising Maproom’s mapping products in any product or service that competes with or undermines Maproom’s own mapping products and services.
b) Licensees are not permitted to make any Maproom map, whether in its initial state of supply or modified or augmented in any way, available for resale or free download on websites. Usage on websites must be purely in the context of illustrative content specific to the Licensee’s project.
c) Licensees are not permitted to sell Maproom maps as printed posters where the primary purpose of the product is purely geographic, postcode, territory or boundary reference mapping. For example, Maproom postcode map bases may not be sold commercially as standalone postcode map posters because this would compete with Maproom’s own products and services and violate clause 3a. However, Maproom map bases may be incorporated into posters and other printed products where the map serves as supporting artwork for content created by the Licensee, such as tourist guides, educational posters, marketing materials or decorative artwork.
d) Licensees are not permitted to extract Maproom’s postcode paths and other boundary polygons for use in GIS applications or any other distributed software.
e) Queries about usage that Maproom would consider to be competing with or undermining our own mapping products and services can be directed to [email protected].
4. Definition of Licensee
a) By default, the Licensee is the purchaser of the map: the individual or organisation named on the order.
b) The rights granted are personal to the Licensee and non-transferable, whether the Licensee is an individual or acting on behalf of a company or client. Licensees may not sell, sublicense or give away free any Maproom digital map base, whether in its initial state of supply or edited, modified or augmented in any way, to another party.
c) Licensees who are acting on behalf of a company or client must take all reasonable steps to prevent third parties from duplicating or distributing Maproom map bases whether they are in their initial state of supply or edited, modified or augmented in any way.
d) A purchaser may request to change the name of the Licensee by applying to [email protected]. (E.g. if a freelance graphics designer has purchased the map in their personal name, but their end client wants the assurance of the license for the finished artwork in its organisation name.)
5. Copyright and Credit
a) Aside from the royalty-free licensing terms laid out above, all other rights to the map bases, including, without limitation, copyright, are retained by Maproom.
b) Some Maproom maps contain Ordnance Survey open data and include a copyright notice such as: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right [year]. These copyright notices may be restyled or moved, but not removed, hidden or cropped out of the final published version of the map. More information is available from Ordnance Survey OpenData.
c) Other Maproom maps do not require a copyright notice on final output but may kindly be credited as follows: Base map © maproom.net
d) Licensees must ensure that all parties handling the artwork are aware of these copyright terms.
Permission must be sought from Maproom for any usage not outlined in the terms laid out above. Queries can be directed to [email protected].