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title: "Available basemaps"
description: "Compare the basemap groups, variants, and overlay controls in the map editor, including the Labels, Roads, POIs, and Boundaries chips."
---

MangoMap offers street, terrain, imagery, artistic, and solid-colour basemaps. A new map uses `OSM Bright` by default.

## Basemap groups and variants

| Dropdown option | Variants | Best suited to |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `Smooth` | `Light`, `Dark` | A quiet street map for thematic layers. |
| `Outdoors` | `Default` | Trails, parks, terrain, and outdoor context. |
| `Terrain` | `Default` | Landform and natural-feature context. |
| `OSM Bright` | `Default` | A general-purpose OpenStreetMap-derived street map. This is the platform default. |
| `Satellite` | `Default` | Imagery with reference information overlaid. |
| `Toner` | `Standard`, `Lite`, `Dark`, `Blacklite` | High-contrast or monochrome presentation. |
| `Watercolor` | `Default` | A hand-painted raster style. |
| `Colour` | Choose a colour | A plain background with no reference geography. |

When an option has several variants, choose the option first and then select a variant chip.

## Overlay controls

Supported basemaps show chips for `Labels`, `Roads`, `POIs`, and `Boundaries`.

- A filled chip with a check means that content is shown.
- Click an active chip to hide that content; click it again to restore the content.
- A disabled chip means that overlay is not available for the selected basemap.
- `Labels` hides the basemap's place, street, water, and landscape names. It doesn't hide points of interest.
- `POIs` hides points of interest and their names.
- The chips affect only the basemap. They never hide your own layers or sketches.
- Chip choices carry over when you switch to another basemap.
- `Watercolor` and `Colour` do not show overlay controls.

All supported overlays are shown by default. Changes save immediately for the current map.

## Viewer basemap changes

The selection under `Default basemap` controls what loads first. If the Basemap chooser extension is enabled, viewers can choose a different basemap for their current session without changing this saved default.

## Related

- [Set the default basemap](/docs/managing-layers/set-default-basemap)
- [Enable the Basemap chooser](/docs/map-extensions/enable-the-basemap-chooser)