Today's favorite maps and biggest users, updated every 5 minutes

     Tiles  Users  Map Name                 

 1    6428     42  USGS 24k Legacy Topo
 2    4604     77  Elevation Data (DEM)
 3    3367      9  2023-2025 NAIP Aerials
 4    2994     15  Northeast US LIDAR
 5    2423      9  1930 NJ-NYC-PHL Aerials
 6     989      9  USGS 62k Historic Topo
 7     904      4  Tax Parcels / Aerials
 8     877      6  2020 New Jersey Aerials
 9     837     10  1980's NHAP B/W Aerials
10     632      6  1970 S NJ B/W Aerials

     Tiles  Users  From                     

 1   14717     48  New Jersey               
 2    7396     22  New York                 
 3    6344      7  Institutional Networks   
 4    2796      4  Maryland                 
 5    2670      1  Enterprise Networks      
 6    2655     18  Pennsylvania             
 7    2512     10  Ohio                     
 8    1620      2  Government Networks      
 9    1352      4  Virginia                 
10     558      8  Massachusetts            

The tables above represent only the top ten out of hundreds of users and maps accessed each day at boydsmaps. Maps consist of many small images called "tiles". It takes about 40 tiles to fill a big computer screen but only 8 for most smartphones. As you move or zoom the map, additional tiles are sent. These totals only include maps stored on the boydsmaps server, remotely-hosted USGS maps are not included. Each table shows tile usage and the number of users. Click/tap any map to learn more about it. Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data is also stored in tiles and used for the live elevation display, regardless of map choice. Individual users are grouped together by state to preserve anonymity. Educational and institutional users are grouped based on their domain names.

Note that the number of tiles and users for groups such as "Higher Education" and the state user lists are not mutually exclusive. For example, if a university is located in New York, its users and tiles would appear in both the New York and Higher Education stats. We're still trying to decide whether this is a "bug" or a "feature".

The statistics automatically update every five minutes while this page is open. They are reset to zero each morning and then accumulate over the following 24 hours until the next morning reset. Usage numbers are therefore small early in the morning and steadily grow throughout the day and following night.

When you view a map, the boydsmaps server logs each tile requested along with your IP address. These addresses are the basis for the locations shown in the table above. Your privacy is important to boydsmaps and we don't collect or retain any other user data. Since there are no accounts and no registration, we simply don't have any of your personal information. There are a number of well known ways to disguise your real IP address if you want even more anonymity. For this reason, the state totals shown above may not always reflect true user locations. Cell phones may also appear to be in the wrong state, as can services like StarLink.

Generally speaking, the number of users shown are probably less than the number of people actually using boydsmaps. User numbers are based on unique ip addresses but multiple people may use a single ip address, especially at institutions. In other words, a single ip address might be used by a whole office, but would only appear as one user here.

In summary: the server knows exactly how many map tiles it sends, but determining the number of individual users and where they are located is as much art as it is science.

User statistics were pre-processed with goaccess, an open source realtime web log analyzer by Gerardo Orellana.
Geolocation database from GeoLite: free GeoIP® converted to legacy .dat format by mailfud.org/geoip-legacy/
Custom boydsmaps user statistics software developed with the assistance of google gemini