Free commercial license
Last updated 2026-10-26
Everything you make with TerraPrinter is yours to use, for yourself or for business. Sell the prints, sell the files, put them in your products. No fee, no royalty, no sign-up. Just credit terraprinter.com and keep the data credits.
- Sell printsOnline, at markets, in shops or as commissions.
- Sell or share the filesSTL, 3MF, GLB, OBJ, SVG, PNG and PDF downloads.
- Use it at workClient gifts, displays, teaching, signage and product design.
- Change anythingEdit, remix, combine and paint the models however you like.
The two things to do when you sell or share a model:
- Credit TerraPrinter:
Made with TerraPrinter (terraprinter.com). Keeping the engraved terraprinter.com on the print counts too. - Keep the credit for the data it was made from (listed below).
Put them in the product listing, the file description, on the packaging or on a small card with the print. Most downloads already carry both in their file details (3MF metadata, SVG description, STL header).
It covers every tool on the site
The 3D map app, globes and planets, lithophanes and Moon lamps, landmarks, puzzles and large projects, the map art studio (posters, plaques and laser files) and every tool under /gifts/. Landmark models are included: print them, sell them and sell files that contain them.
Credits to keep
Add the line for what you made after Made with TerraPrinter (terraprinter.com). If you made several kinds, list each source once.
| What you made | Credit line |
|---|---|
| 3D maps of anywhere on Earth (the main app, landmarks, puzzles, large projects, sea level) | Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Elevation: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA, and Mapzen Terrain Tiles on AWS. |
| Earth globes and Earth lithophane lamps | Elevation: Mapzen Terrain Tiles on AWS (SRTM, GMTED2010, ETOPO1 and others). |
| Earth lithophane panels | Elevation: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA, and Mapzen Terrain Tiles on AWS. |
| Map art posters, plaques and laser files (/art/) | Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). |
| Gift tools under /gifts/ (contour layers, ornaments, medals, jewellery, home models, coasters and tiles, shadow boxes, bookends, vases, boxes and lamps, watershed models, mountain ball runs, chocolate, soap and candle molds) | Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), where the model shows streets, buildings or water. Elevation: Mapzen Terrain Tiles on AWS (SRTM, GMTED2010, ETOPO1 and others), where it shows terrain. |
| Data sculptures (/gifts/data/) | Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), via world-atlas. US states and counties: U.S. Census Bureau (public domain), via us-atlas. With a sample dataset, also credit its source as shown on the page: World Bank World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0), U.S. Census Bureau population estimates (public domain) or Statistics Canada (Open Government Licence – Canada). With your own numbers, credit your own source. |
| Cookie cutters (/gifts/cookie-cutters/) | Outlines: Natural Earth (public domain), via world-atlas; US states: U.S. Census Bureau (public domain), via us-atlas; city outlines: Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Skylines and stamps: the Mapzen elevation credit. |
| Star maps (/gifts/star-map/) | Star data: d3-celestial by Olaf Frohn (BSD-3-Clause), from the Hipparcos and Yale Bright Star catalogues. Add the Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) credit or the Mapzen elevation credit for the place side. |
| Building heights (main app, where OpenStreetMap has no height tag) | Building heights: Overture Maps Foundation, overturemaps.org (ODbL). Overture's heights come from Microsoft Global ML Building Footprints (ODbL), Esri Community Maps contributors (CC BY 4.0), Google Open Buildings (CC BY 4.0), USGS 3D Elevation Program, IGN Spain (work derived from BTN 2024, CC BY 4.0) Qian Shi et al. (Zenodo, CC BY 4.0) and the City of Vancouver (Open Government Licence – Vancouver). Downloads that use them already carry the short credit. |
| Satellite surface colours and satellite texture | EOxCloudless https://cloudless.eox.at by EOX IT Services GmbH (Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The satellite map in the app uses the same imagery. |
| Mars | Elevation: MGS MOLA (NASA/JPL/GSFC, USGS Astrogeology). Lithophane images: Viking MDIM 2.1 (NASA/JPL, USGS Astrogeology). |
| The Moon | Elevation: LRO LOLA (NASA/GSFC, USGS Astrogeology). Lithophane images: LRO WAC mosaic (NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University, USGS Astrogeology). |
| Mercury | Elevation: MESSENGER MDIS (NASA/JHUAPL/CIW, USGS Astrogeology). |
| Venus | Elevation: Magellan altimetry (NASA/JPL, USGS Astrogeology). |
| Pluto and Charon | Elevation: New Horizons (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI, USGS Astrogeology). |
| Ceres and Vesta | Elevation: Dawn FC HAMO (NASA/JPL/DLR, USGS Astrogeology). |
Where the elevation comes from Mapzen Terrain Tiles, the data inside them comes from many national sources. In a long description, such as a product page, add: Mapzen Terrain Tiles include SRTM, GMTED2010 and 3DEP (U.S. Geological Survey), ETOPO1 (NOAA), EU-DEM (Copernicus), and national elevation data from Australia, Austria, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway and the United Kingdom. The full list is in the Mapzen terrain attribution.
Lettering on art posters, plaques and gifts is made from fonts under the SIL Open Font License, which allows it in products you sell.
Questions
Can I sell prints of my TerraPrinter models?
Yes. Sell them online, at markets, in a shop or to clients, at any price, with no fee or royalty to us. Credit terraprinter.com and keep the data credits in the listing, on the packaging or on a small card. Leaving the engraved terraprinter.com on the print also counts as the TerraPrinter credit.
Can I sell the STL, 3MF or SVG files themselves?
Yes. You can sell, give away or bundle the files you make, including models with landmarks in them. Put "Made with TerraPrinter (terraprinter.com)" and the data credits in the listing or description. Most downloads already carry both in their file details.
Do I have to credit TerraPrinter?
Yes, when you sell or share what you make: a short "Made with TerraPrinter (terraprinter.com)" in the listing, description, packaging or on a card is enough. If you keep the small engraved terraprinter.com under the model, that counts too. Things you make only for yourself need no credit.
Can a business use it?
Yes. Shops, print farms, estate agents, schools, museums, event organisers and designers can all use TerraPrinter models in products, gifts, displays and client work for free.
Do I need to ask permission or sign up?
No. The license applies to everyone automatically. No account, form or email needed.
What about names and logos?
This license covers what TerraPrinter adds. It does not give you rights to other people's trademarks, such as a race's logo, a team crest or a brand name. Get permission for those where your country requires it.
Are landmarks and famous buildings always free to sell?
Not always. TerraPrinter's license covers our landmark models, but some landmarks and buildings are protected by their owners as trademarks or designs. For example, the Empire State Building's shape is a registered trademark, and the Eiffel Tower's night lighting is protected by copyright. Some modern buildings are protected in some countries too. Before you sell products featuring a landmark, check whether its owner protects it where you sell. That's your responsibility as the seller.
Can I copy another company's product style?
No. Other makers of 3D maps and models may hold registered designs or copyright in the look of their products. Making a 3D map with TerraPrinter is fine, but copying the specific shape, base, frame or presentation of someone else's product can infringe their rights. Make your own design.
The license
Capital Coders Inc., which operates TerraPrinter, grants you a free, worldwide, non-exclusive and perpetual license to use, copy, modify, print, sell, distribute and display the models, images and files you make with TerraPrinter, for any purpose, commercial or not, with no payment. This includes the landmark models and the lettering, frames and other parts TerraPrinter adds to a model. The one condition: whenever you sell, publish or distribute them, or products made from them, you credit TerraPrinter with "Made with TerraPrinter (terraprinter.com)" or an equivalent visible credit, such as the engraved terraprinter.com left on the model. Use that is only for yourself needs no credit.
The map and elevation data in a model stay under their own licenses, which allow commercial use with credit: OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps building heights under the Open Database License, Copernicus DEM under the Copernicus DEM license, and the Mapzen and planetary sources named above. Keeping the credit lines on this page meets them for prints and files.
This license doesn't cover the TerraPrinter name and logo, or the website and its software, so please don't present your products as made or endorsed by TerraPrinter or copy the site itself. It doesn't grant rights in third-party trademarks, registered designs or copyrights, including those that protect some landmarks, buildings, logos and other makers' product designs. If you sell or distribute what you make, you're responsible for making sure your products don't infringe them. Models are artistic representations, provided as is, without warranty, as set out in the terms of use.