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Daniel

I genuinely feel like #Protomaps is not nearly getting the attention it deserves

protomaps.com

We can drop a single file on a static host and get stylable vector maps? Magic ✨

In combination with Maplibre it's a game changer for 99% of web map use cases 👏

#OpenStreetMap #MapLibre #Maps #Mapstodon

22 Oct 2023 at 20:01 | Open on chaos.social
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Daniel

Where's the moat in web maps nowadays?

3d? Proprietary data?

2d maps with OpenStreetMap data seem Good Enough ™️ for what most folks need, and those use cases are definitely covered by Maplibre + Protomaps 🤌✨

(I'm specifically not talking about services like geocoding, navigation, etc. here but only basemaps)

22 Oct 2023 at 20:05 | Open on chaos.social
execfoo

@djh the moat is legal. Try putting those nice google geocoding results on a non-google map. 😐

22 Oct 2023 at 20:53 | Open on chaos.social
scy

@djh Oh wow. You may have probably completely changed the way I’m gonna tackle a freelance project I was about to start tomorrow, which would’ve started with “let’s set up an OSM tileserver”. 🤯

22 Oct 2023 at 20:10 | Open on chaos.social
Thibault Molleman🇧🇪 🌈🐝

@djh pinging @pietervdvn (just so you've seen this exists)

22 Oct 2023 at 20:15 | Open on en.osm.town
Pietervdvn :mapcomplete:

@thibaultmol @djh Yeah, I've seen the project before; it _is_ interesting and might be worth it to experiment with. One drawback is that it is still somewhat experimental and a one-man-project (but then again, MapComplete has a single point of failure there too ;) )

At the same time, the maptiler bill bounced and is getting more expensive... It crossed the half-a-million 'view requests' past month...

22 Oct 2023 at 21:37 | Open on en.osm.town
Philip Gillißen

@djh that's awesome. I might try that out for one project of mine.

Would this work for tilesets which only cover parts of the globe, e.g. custom overlay as tiles?

22 Oct 2023 at 20:18 | Open on ruhr.social
Daniel

@guerda sure! There's a

pmtiles convert

tool to turn a .mbtiles file into a .pmtiles file and recent gdal by now can write .pmtiles directly, too!

Then on the maplibre side you just point it to the .pmtiles static file url and be done with it 😍

22 Oct 2023 at 20:34 | Open on chaos.social
Daniel

@guerda recent tippecanoe versions can directly write .pmtiles, too, nowadays! So awesome! 🚀🌔

22 Oct 2023 at 20:35 | Open on chaos.social
Philip Gillißen
Juan Luis
Jonathan Schofield
Xerz! :blobcathearttrans:

@djh curious, I wanted to implement myself something exactly like this… good to know it’s already been proven feasible :blobcateyes:

23 Oct 2023 at 8:54 | Open on fedi.xerz.one
uhmmm
Amᵃᵖanda 🌼

@djh 💯 When I read the idea for the pmtiles format i thought it was so obvious, and simple and yet no-one had every thought of doing that.

I've been *very* happy with pmtiles (via tippecanoe) for my river map amandasaurus.github.io/osm-riv

23 Oct 2023 at 11:29 | Open on en.osm.town
Michal Migurski 📦

@amapanda @djh @bdon It takes some audacity and tenacity to stick with a new file format and all it implies. PMT is such an improvement on MBT just because it gets SQLite (and its preference for local files) out of the picture.

23 Oct 2023 at 15:46 | Open on mastodon.social
Ilya Zverev
Michal Migurski 📦

@zverik @amapanda @djh @bdon WASM is so cool, wish I had a reason to try it

23 Oct 2023 at 19:33 | Open on mastodon.social
Rihards Olups

@zverik @migurski @amapanda @djh @bdon
Which reminds me (using the opportunity to ask smart people...) - is there some way to have a list of entries (perhaps with images attached) in a somewhat structured, but easily editable format, while being able to display entries on a map (filtering/styling by categories/tags) and get a GPX of them?

23 Oct 2023 at 19:49 | Open on mastodon.social
Ilya Zverev

@richlv @migurski @amapanda @djh @bdon I think no, but maybe others can come up with something. I'd recommend umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/

23 Oct 2023 at 21:05 | Open on en.osm.town
Rihards Olups

@zverik @migurski @amapanda @djh @bdon
Indeed, considered uMap, but collating detail from Github issues would be great, as it would allow for easier collaboration and tracking.

24 Oct 2023 at 10:55 | Open on mastodon.social
Ilya Zverev

@djh Absolutely. People just don't know about it. I plan to write an article on geo in cloud, but first I have to leave my job :)

23 Oct 2023 at 17:42 | Open on en.osm.town
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