Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap

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Low End Box

#Cloud Computing #Search Engine #Cloud Infrastructure 142 social mentions

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Contabo

#VPS #Domain Name Registrar #Cloud Computing 13 social mentions

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MapLibre

Small note clarification about MapLibre. It's a <i>vendor-neutral</i> project supported by a lot of different industry participants (including AWS & Meta). https://maplibre.org.

#Maps #Web Mapping #Mapping And GIS 17 social mentions

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OpenLayers

Seems like MapTiler is maintaining an open source full stack vector alternative, and OpenLayers[0] looks good as well, so maybe it's time for legacy libraries to add vector support, or for users to switch libraries? There's even bindings from Maplibre GL to Leaflet [1]. I at least would find it interesting to see the two compared by someone other than me ;). [0] https://openlayers.org/ [1] https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-leaflet.

#B2B SaaS #Business & Commerce #Maps 28 social mentions

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Stamen Maps

The barriers to adopting vector-everywhere are social and commercial, not technical. There are a couple great public raster services like osm.org's default style and http://maps.stamen.com. These are 100% free to use, so they get used everywhere, but incur significant expense to the organizations running (paying) for them. There aren't equivalent solutions in vector-land yet... I wrote a bit about this previously: https://protomaps.com/blog/free-tier-maps.

#Maps #Web Mapping #Maps & Navigation 13 social mentions

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Organic Maps

I found that Organic Maps (https://organicmaps.app) is a good open-source OSM-based alternative to Google Maps. Please check it out.

#Maps #Web Mapping #Driving Navigation 98 social mentions

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GeoServer

Thank you! It's on my todo-list to set up such a server and your work will really help with it. Here is another excellent write-up from Stefan Erhardt who is the founder of OpenTopoMap [0][1] which gives step-by-step instructions [2] on how to set up a tile server with custom tile rendering, also based on OSM's data. Also worth mentioning is GeoServer [3] [0] https://opentopomap.org/ [1] https://github.com/der-stefan/OpenTopoMap [2] https://github.com/der-stefan/OpenTopoMap/blob/master/mapnik/README.md [3] https://geoserver.org/.

#Maps #Mapping And GIS #Web Mapping 9 social mentions

In a similar vain, there is maps.earth / headway: https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway https://about.maps.earth/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32551273.

#Map #Maps #Web Mapping 2 social mentions