Free maps of Austria

Austria has excellent free maps – above all the official basemap.at. An overview of what exists and what it is good for.

Last updated: 2 November 2026

basemap.at

Austria’s official administrative base map, published by the nine federal states and partners as open government data (CC BY 4.0). Variants: standard, grey, 30 cm aerial imagery and hillshading.

Marked trails

The “hiking trails” overlay comes from Waymarked Trails and shows all marked trails in OpenStreetMap.

OpenTopoMap across the border

basemap.at ends at the border; for tours abroad GPX-Werkstatt switches to OpenTopoMap automatically.

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