Verdict
mapcarta.com appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Mapcarta is an open-world mapping and geographic discovery website combining map exploration with travel and destination information sourced from OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other open projects. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 18 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20093450 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2009.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Mapcarta is an open-world mapping and geographic-discovery website that combines interactive maps, directions, satellite and photo views, hotels, and destination information sourced from OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other open projects.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions, phishing indicators, impersonation signals, or confirmed blacklist findings were observed. The homepage provides coherent informational content about maps, cities, landmarks, and destinations, with visible attribution to established open-data projects. Its established operating history, clean external reputation, and aligned present-day purpose support a legitimate identity rather than a deceptive or repurposed one.
- The homepage identifies the service as “The Open Map” and describes map exploration and geographic discovery.
- The homepage contains no login form, sensitive form, wallet connection, or external password submission.
- The domain was registered in 2008 and is approximately 18.1 years old.
- Historical records contain 3,450 snapshots spanning 2009–2026, with 18 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The reviewed content describes an informational mapping and travel platform, not a financial, investment, or regulated-services offering. No licensing claim or financial transaction promise appears in the reviewed homepage, so regulatory licensing is not material to the apparent business model; the principal transparency basis is the site's explicit attribution to OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other open projects. A high page-authority profile and clean external reputation provide additional contextual support, without constituting a legal or regulatory determination.
- The homepage presents maps, directions, hotels, geographic descriptions, and destination discovery.
- The site identifies OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia, Wikidata, and other open projects as content sources.
- The domain is registered through Cloudflare, Inc.
- The site has a high page-authority profile and a top-tier global traffic footprint.
What to Verify Next
For ordinary use, no exceptional verification step is indicated by the available evidence. Where institutional diligence requires it, confirm the current terms, privacy practices, and attribution arrangements through the site's own legal or informational pages, and validate any third-party travel or accommodation references independently before relying on them operationally.
- The homepage includes destination descriptions, photographs, directions, and hotel-related navigation.
- The homepage attributes photographs using named creators and Creative Commons or public-domain notices.
- The reviewed page contains no sensitive submission form or untrusted form destination.
Summary Verdict
Mapcarta presents as a legitimate, established, and trustworthy informational mapping service. The available evidence supports normal interaction, including account login where offered and standard use, with no observed contradiction requiring elevated concern.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Cloudflare CDN/WAF infrastructure, and observed addresses resolve to Cloudflare edge servers rather than an exposed origin. This reduces direct origin exposure and is a meaningful mitigating control, although protective hosting alone is not proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and standard account use are appropriate; organizations requiring formal diligence should retain their usual review of applicable terms, privacy provisions, and downstream travel information.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-01 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 25% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of mapcarta.com.
- The request stayed on mapcarta.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Cloudflare, Inc.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-07-01. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2009-10-05. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Cloudflare, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:20::ac43:4564 |
| Name servers | BRYNNE.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, RAJEEV.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-25 |
| Domain age | 18.1 years |
| Domain expiry | 2027-07-01 |
| Archive first seen | 2009-10-05 |
| Archive snapshots | 3450 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about mapcarta.com at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.