Initially I had no good idea about how to design a color scheme for a map. As I couldn't find any tutorial on the web, I decided to learn myself from examples: I analyzed the 33 different map color schemes that are available in Place.Guru, a web app that comes close to My Ideal Map App (the web app I'm building). - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago

The only alternative that comes close to My Ideal Map App is a web app called Place.guru, but it's meant for publishing the list of places to be seen by other people (like this one), not for customizing a map to the user's own interest. As a result, its UI design is not optimized (actually, quite annoying) for the purpose of using the app in the way I want to. Plus, it is no longer actively maintained (as of 16... - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago

I have used http://maps.stamen.com to good effect. Source: about 1 year ago

Thanks!! It was actually pretty easy. I got the map background from Stamen Maps (free), and for the vellum overlay I just traced all the points by hand and wrote the title on with a metallic gold marker. Source: over 1 year ago

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:... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Thanks for the feedback. The map is from maps.stamen.com . When I re-watch the clip I also notice that the text is way to fast. Source: almost 2 years ago

The Stamen toner map may work well for you: http://maps.stamen.com/#toner/14/37.8024/-122.2645 Also checkout their watercolor rendering... Probably my favorite basemap that I never get to use. If you do use QGIS, you can get the Quick Map Services plugin that will connect you with these Stamen basemaps as well (and tons of other basemaps, a must-have plugin). - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago