Self-hosted map infrastructure

Map data that
doesn't leave
Africa.

Latlens runs its own tile, geocoding and routing stack — not a resold license on someone else's global platform. One API, real African coverage, data that stays where your users are.

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2services live in production

100%self-hosted, zero third-party map calls

6.34°Nfirst coverage region — Edo State, NG

6.335° N, 5.603° EBENIN CITY

Live from api.latlens.com

Not a screenshot. A running service.

This is the actual vector-tile archive served by our tile service today — real OpenStreetMap-derived coverage of Benin City, Edo State. Pan and zoom it.

tiler.oredo — connecting

z12 · 2111 / 1976

What's in this archive

The oredo vector-tile set is our first fully indexed region — every layer below is real, queryable data.

placecapital, rank, name:latin

boundaryadmin_level, disputed

buildingrender_height, levels

transportationclass, surface, oneway

View TileJSON →

Why not just use Mapbox or TomTom

Four things we do differently.

Data sovereignty

Tiles, geocoding and routing run on infrastructure we operate. Nothing routes through a US or EU platform by default.

Africa-first addressing

Our geocoder is tuned on African address patterns — informal settlements, landmark-based directions, mixed-language place names.

Real gateway, not a demo

Token auth, per-service rate limits, usage metering and billing are live in production today — the same gateway you'd build on.

Open underneath

Built on OpenStreetMap and the Rapid editor. Contribute back to the map you're building on — no closed license.

For developers

One key. Every service.

Register, generate a scoped API key, and call tiles or geocoding from the same gateway — no separate accounts per service.

geocode.shcurl

# geocode a place name
curl https://api.latlens.com/api/photon/api?q=Lagos \
  -H "Authorization: ApiKey eag_your_token"

# fetch a vector tile
curl https://api.latlens.com/api/tiler/oredo/12/2111/1976.mvt \
  -H "Authorization: ApiKey eag_your_token"

API reference

Every endpoint, request and response shape

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Dashboard

Manage keys, credits and usage — dashboard.latlens.com

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Interactive demo

Try the map and search in your browser — demo.latlens.com

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Built for

Where street-level accuracy matters most.

6.5244° N, 3.3792° E — LAGOS

Logistics & delivery

Route optimization and live tracking that understands informal addressing, not just numbered streets.

5.6037° N, 0.1870° W — ACCRA

Fintech address verification

Confirm a customer's real location for KYC and delivery — without relying on postal codes that don't exist yet.

30.0444° N, 31.2357° E — CAIRO

Real estate & urban planning

Parcel-level mapping and development analysis on data that reflects how neighborhoods actually grow.

Where we're headed

One region live. A continent to go.

Benin City is fully indexed today. These are next on the map — not live coverage yet, the honest roadmap.

Lagos

6.52° N, 3.38° E

Accra

5.60° N, 0.19° W

Rabat

34.02° N, 6.83° W

Cairo

30.04° N, 31.24° E

Namibia

22.96° S, 18.49° E

Positioning

Where we fit next to the big platforms.

Capability	Latlens	Mapbox	TomTom
Self-hosted / data-sovereign option	Yes	No	No
Africa-tuned geocoding	Yes	Partial	Partial
Transparent published pricing	Yes	Yes	Sales-only
Open-data map foundation (OSM)	Yes	Yes	Proprietary

For teams

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