About Tilery

One Person, Not a Team

Tilery is built and run by one person: Snorre Magnus Davøen, a software developer in Bergen. When this site says “we”, that is who it means.

That has a practical side. The person who answers support@tilery.eu is the person who wrote the tile server, so you get an answer, not a ticket number. There is no sales team and no account manager. What the docs describe is what runs.

It also raises an obvious question: what if one person stops? No company can promise to be around forever, so Tilery is built to be easy to leave instead. The tiles are standard vector tiles made from open data, and a map built on them can move to another host, or to a PMTiles file on your own storage, by changing a URL. If the service ever closes, the terms promise three months’ notice and a refund of unused credits. And there are no investors setting the pace.

The Company

Company

Tilery AS, a Norwegian aksjeselskap

Organisation number

837 547 652, in Foretaksregisteret

Founded

April 2026, in Bergen

Registered address

Vilhelm Bjerknes' vei 43, 5081 Bergen, Norway

Data protection

The GDPR applies directly, supervised by Datatilsynet, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority

Payments

Creem, as merchant of record (Armitage Labs OÜ, Estonia)

The register is public: look us up at brreg.no.

European by Choice

The companies that run Tilery are European-owned and hosted in Europe: Scaleway in France for servers, databases and storage, Creem in Estonia for payments, Proton in Switzerland for the support inbox. Everything else the service needs runs self-hosted on that same infrastructure. The exception is the one every European service has: paying by card means Visa or Mastercard, and Creem’s own stack runs partly on US-owned systems. Your card number never reaches Tilery.

An EU region of an American cloud is still within reach of the US CLOUD Act, and we would rather not put that between you and your maps. It also means every infrastructure euro Tilery earns is spent on European technology. The full list, the exceptions, and where the servers stand, are on the European Sovereignty page.

Built on Open Data

Every tile Tilery serves is made from OpenStreetMap, the map of the world that volunteers have been drawing since 2004, published under the ODbL open licence. The tiles are built with the Protomaps project’s open-source tooling, and the basemap styles start from Protomaps’ open ones.

That is the whole reason a one-person company can serve maps of the entire planet: the hard part, the data, was done by thousands of volunteers and given away. Tilery does not claim to repay that. What it does is keep the debt visible. OpenStreetMap’s attribution is a condition of our terms, on every map you publish, and the data and styles you get through Tilery stay under their own open licences, not one of ours.

Say Hello

Questions, a bug report, or a map you built with Tilery and want to show off: write to support@tilery.eu. English or Norwegian, both are fine, and the reply comes from Snorre.