Is tile.poloha.net legit or a scam?
Legitimate Czech OpenStreetMap tile server (12.6-year-old domain, zero malware detections, integrated into official OSM workflows).
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The page is a fully-rendered open directory index with no user-facing application content, no scam indicators, and no branding — consistent with an unprotected or abandoned web server root from 2016.
What our vision model saw
1 signalPage displays a bare Apache/nginx-style directory listing ('Index of /') with two subdirectories (json/ and jsonsk/) dated 2016, indicating an exposed server directory with no application front-end
MT Intelligence
The domain poloha.net has been registered for 4,601 days (approximately 12.6 years) and operates as a community-run infrastructure project supporting OpenStreetMap in the Czech Republic. Our antivirus network flagged zero detections across 92 engines, the hosting IP has a clean abuse score, and SSL is valid. The root path displays a bare directory index consistent with a static tile-hosting setup, not a phishing or scam front-end. Web research confirms the project is widely referenced in positive contexts: it is listed in the official OSM Editor Layer Index, mentioned in Czech OpenStreetMap community documentation, and used by JOSM (Java OpenStreetMap Editor) users. The operator, Petr Vejsada, runs the project transparently with public GitHub repositories and community funding. No scam reports, complaints, or malware mentions appear in any search results.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for tile.poloha.net, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- tile.poloha.net is a public tile server (e.g. /budovy/{z}/{x}/{y}.png, /adresy/, /kct/) providing OpenStreetMap-related raster layers for Czech users, including RÚIAN building and address data, hill shading, contours and tourist trails.
- The parent domain poloha.net is a long-running (domain age 4601 days ≈ 12.6 years) project by Petr Vejsada, used for OSM support tools, tourist maps of Czech Republic, RÚIAN data processing and related services.
- Widely referenced in positive context in Czech OSM mailing lists, JOSM editor layer index, GitHub osmcz repositories, and community blogs since at least 2014.
- The root path https://tile.poloha.net/ returns a directory index listing folders such as json/ and jsonsk/ (last modified 2016), consistent with a static tile or data hosting setup.
- No scam reports, malware detections, complaints or negative mentions found across web searches including targeted queries for scam/phishing/malware.
- Integrated into legitimate mapping workflows: used as overlay in JOSM, referenced in OSM CZ talks, and listed in official OSM editor layer index.
- openstreetmap.czopen
"Server poloha.net poskytuje několik služeb pro zdejší mapu, a další užitečné nástroje přímo pro českou komunitu. aktualizace adres z RÚIAN"
- poloha.netopen
"Momentálně tato doména slouží k provozu podpůrných programů pro rozvoj projektu OpenStreetMap."
- OSM Editor Layer Indexopen
"url: https://tile.poloha.net/budovy/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png CZ / Czech RUIAN"
Operated by Petr Vejsada as a community OpenStreetMap support project; transparent funding account mentioned; GitHub repos under osmcz/poloha.net
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for tile.poloha.net and poloha.net and found zero scam reports or complaints. Instead, we identified three positive references confirming the domain operates as a legitimate Czech OpenStreetMap community project. The tile server is listed in the official OSM Editor Layer Index, referenced in Czech OSM documentation, and maintained via public GitHub repositories. The operator, Petr Vejsada, runs the project transparently with community funding and has been active since at least 2014.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (2016-02-06 14).
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on tile.poloha.net and not a lookalike like t-ile.poloha.net.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on tile.poloha.net. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- tile.poloha.net passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 89/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. tile.poloha.net presents a valid TLSv1.2 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 29 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- tile.poloha.net is 12.6 years old, registered on 11/6/2013 through WEDOS Internet, a.s.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report tile.poloha.net as clean.
- No. tile.poloha.net is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- tile.poloha.net resolves to an IP operated by Contabo GmbH in FR (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 12, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around tile.poloha.net have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
User reviews & comments(0)
Share your experience — "Lost $200 on a fake checkout" is more useful than "Scam". Your review helps others avoid traps.