# PMTiles PMTiles is a single-file archive format for tiled data. A PMTiles archive can be hosted on a commodity storage platform such as S3, and enables low-cost, zero-maintenance map applications that are "serverless" - free of a custom tile backend or third party provider. [Demo](https://protomaps.github.io/PMTiles/examples/leaflet.html) - watch your network request log See also: * [Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs](https://www.cogeo.org) ## License The reference implementations of PMTiles are published under the BSD 3-Clause License. The PMTiles specification itself is public domain, or under a CC0 license where applicable.