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The tile set I've been unable to find is an overlay of all roads, suitable for drawing on top of satellite and terrain maps. Are there any? There aren't any listed on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_servers



If you use vector tiles, you can use any of the major providers:

- Mapbox (https://mapbox.com)

- MapTiler (https://maptiler.com)

- Stadia Maps (https://stadiamaps.com)

- https://switch2osm.github.io/providers/

…then you style / display only the road data and exclude the rest of the data and overlay that on your tiles.

(Note: I'm co-founder of Stadia Maps.)


The Toner style from Stamen has several different layers that you can use to accomplish what you're talking about:

- Hybrid does exactly what you're looking for: http://maps.stamen.com/toner-hybrid/#12/37.7706/-122.3782

But they also break that down into labels and lines:

- Labels: http://maps.stamen.com/toner-labels/#12/37.7706/-122.3782

- Lines: http://maps.stamen.com/toner-lines/#12/37.7706/-122.3782

Their Terrain style has a similar separation:

- Lines: http://maps.stamen.com/terrain-lines/#12/37.7706/-122.3782

- Labels: http://maps.stamen.com/terrain-labels/#12/37.7706/-122.3782

- Background: http://maps.stamen.com/terrain-background/#12/37.7706/-122.3...




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