you can use TileMill to render the tiles and then host them yourself. its the hosting and the render farm that you can pay MapBox for, but there are ways around

you can use TileMill to render the tiles and then host them yourself. its the hosting and the render farm that you can pay MapBox for, but there are ways around it if you are small and prepared to do work. I agree the default OSM map is a bit ... pink. and yellow. and then blue. but at least it isn't Simpsons Yellow like default google. but see the link I posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7174856 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7174856 for more free examples