cyclosm-cartocss-style VS PMTiles

This is a great map resource I use a lot to set my routes: https://www.cyclosm.org/

Komoot uses OpenStreetMap data. That is a huge plus in the many countries where their data is much better than the likes of Google, but if youbhappen to be somewhere the data isn't great, then you can get results like that. The good thing is though, that if a path is illegal to cycle on, all it takes is making an account and adding bicycle=no to the path. Your edit is applied immediately (though might be reviewed by a human later) and will result in better data in Komoot but also in other apps like Strava or cool cycle infrastructure maps like www.cyclosm.org

I'm new to OSM. I'm looking for a 'trailforks-like' experience where I can click on a mountain bike route to highligh the route, and see information about elevation gains, etc. When using osm.org, cyclosm.org, or OsmAnd on my phone, I can see mountain biking routes in my area, but I can't select them to show me the full named route.

www.cyclosm.org <- good for finding the cycle paths

Ditch Google Maps and use either https://www.cyclosm.org or brouter.de/ (for planning). They are based on openstreetmap data, and are WAY better than Google Maps for cycling, because all the data is crowdsourced and fresh by several years over Gmaps.

There are lots of great maps out there that do show other infrastructure like on-road bike lanes, mixed traffic lanes and signposted cycle routes without any accompanying infrastructure: - CyclOSM - OpenCycleMap - Google Maps

Not to discourage you (I'm a great fan of playing around with things to learn myself), but you should be aware of www.cyclosm.org

I am a novice at GIS and mapping but when I got started I thought a map/tile server was the only way to build mapping webapps.

But, in my admittedly simple application PMTiles can cover a lot of my visualization use cases with a thing Django app doing GEOJson for interactive stuff.

https://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles

This is awesome. Such a great use case for nix.

I do a lot of geospatial processing in the cloud and I've been using Tippecanoe a lot to create vector tiles. It pairs well with PM Tiles for storing on the cloud. It seriously increases the web app performance for massive data sets. I queue these up with ECS tasks to process our json/csv/parquet input and create optimize vector tile outputs.

https://github.com/felt/tippecanoe

https://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles

Tippecanoe would be a great addition to your nix packages. I've been thinking more and more about how Nix could fit into this pipeline.

Great work!

The thing being discussed is designed for cloud, so I think self managed is a better description?

https://protomaps.com/docs/cdn

Self hosting pmtiles is straightforward also, make a file available to a server that supports range requests:

https://protomaps.com/docs/pmtiles#2.-serve-your-file-locall...

It might've just been this: https://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles/tree/main/serverless/aws

There isn't a tool to do that right now. It could be a fit in either https://github.com/protomaps/go-pmtiles or https://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles/tree/main/python - the Go program is faster and more production ready at this point. I imagine if folders are working for you the quantity of tiles doesn't number into the millions, so the Python program might be sufficient.

Feel free to open an issue.

PMTiles

For the next revision of the JS decoder I'm including `fflate` as a dependency so clients can decompress gzipped tile data using JavaScript.

https://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles/blob/master/js/package....