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• How to build and serve custom simplified maps with OpenMapTiles

  If you need to display a map on your website and do not plan to use online mapping services such as MapTiler or Mapbox, you may want to use OpenMapTiles to generate and serve custom tiles. This approach is also useful when you are not interested in all the features a map can display. In this tutorial, we will create a map featuring only water, such as coastlines, lakes and rivers. This tutorial was tested on... - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• VersaTiles – a complete FLOSS map stack

  Functionally they are rather similar in what they're aiming for. Architecturally there are some differences. OpenFreeMap uses the MapTiles format [1] which is an open source format for vector tiles that does require the attribution of the OpenMapTiles page for every map generated from it (CC-BY license). Versatiles uses the Shortbread format instead [2] which is published under a CC0 license. Instead of the SQLite... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• I honestly don't like using most Openstreetmap websites: slow, clunky. Is there a better way to do this faster on my own desktop?

  The docs of https://openmaptiles.org is probably enough and they also offer a tileset. Creating your own vectortiles from openstreetmap is a bit of a rabbit hole as well as resource demanding task. Source: almost 3 years ago

• How would you build something like this?

  Something like https://openmaptiles.org/ to host map server. Source: about 3 years ago

• Synology Photos HEIC support after 7.1.1-42962 Update 4

  Custom tiles are doable (see also https://openmaptiles.org/), but then you need some people dedicated to maintain the data and serving them; your costs would shift from buying the service to your own operations. Thi would be still non-zero (compared to current state). Source: about 3 years ago

• Any websites that make world maps for board games?

  Https://openmaptiles.org/ - usable with copyright attribution and a bit of effort on your part. Source: about 3 years ago

• 20 good map websites - website to find local nonprofits, Interactive map showing the potential and problems of nuclear strikes, global ship tracking

  Https://openmaptiles.org - Open-source maps made for self-hosting. Source: over 3 years ago

• Possible to download OSM default map and turn it into a vector tile

  Yes, there are a couple companies that do this already. OpenMapTiles has all of their code available to look at it/use. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Show HN: Interactive 3D Visualization of the Shared Mobility Traffic in Berlin

  Hello HN! Over the last year, I crawled and stored the position of all available bicycles of a large shared mobility provider in Berlin, Germany once a minute (~2.1 billion data points). Subsequently, I calculated 713,562 trip routes as they were likely taken by customers of the provider. The web app linked above provides more background information and visualizes some patterns I find interesting. All 3D map... - Source: Hacker News / about 4 years ago

• Getting to the bottom of web map performance

  Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't OpenLayers (https://openlayers.org/) mostly just a client side library for the displaying of maps, much like Leaflet (https://leafletjs.com/)? To have your own tile server, you'd probably want something like OpenMapTiles (https://openmaptiles.org/) or another alternative like Tilemaker (https://tilemaker.org/). - Source: Hacker News / over 4 years ago

• Are there any vector MBTiles provider apart from Maptiler?

  The https://openmaptiles.org/ stack is open source and can in theory be used to generate tiles. I'm just commenting to warn you that the setup is very involved and requires an orchestra of Docker images. Processing the world will take many CPU days. How to parallelize the stuff or even get live updates is the "secret sauce" of MapTiler. Source: over 4 years ago

• Different Maps option, instead of AppleMaps

  Is it possible to use a different maps, instead of "apple Maps". Maybe something with: Https://www.openstreetmap.org/about/ Https://openmaptiles.org/. Source: over 4 years ago

• Offline Map Tiles

  Maptiler/tileserver-GL/openmaptiles was already mentioned below. They do have a pretty easy plug-and-play setup, however, I didn't use them because I found their... Business (?) to be EXTREMELY confusing. I couldn't tell what was free, what was paid, what was open source, what was proprietary, what they handle, what I have to handle... And it all seems to be split between OpenMapTiles, Maptiler, and Klokan Tech.... Source: almost 5 years ago

• Ask HN: Cheapest Maps APIs

  For your frontend: MapLibre GL [1] is the fork of Mapbox GL that's still open source, so you don't have to pay for each usage. For tile hosting: Openmaptiles [2], based on Openstreetmap data. Either pay them for out-of-the-box experience, or use their open-source code to set up your own server at whatever hosting for whatever price you prefer. [1] https://github.com/MapLibre/maplibre-gl-js [2]... - Source: Hacker News / about 5 years ago

• A new way to make maps with OpenStreetMap

  I'd also recommend having a look at https://openmaptiles.org/. They have workflows and editors for working with MVT and Maplibre. You can combine a base map from maplibre with other sources using Openlayers [0] [0]: https://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/mapbox-layer.html. - Source: Hacker News / about 5 years ago