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headway
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Serverless maps at 1/700 the cost of Google Maps API
You might want to peek at https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway . I have never used it myself, but it at least shows how to integrate the different pieces.
The individual software components often have alternative with a similar scope. So if you don't like a choice headwaymaps made, browse around.
The data sources are mostly "unique", i.e. everybody downloads from the pages (Geofabrik, Who's On First, etc), so not much to gain here.
Editing styles has some alternatives, but the OpenSource editors are far away from the quality of the Mapbox editor. Maputnik or editing the 1000+ SLOC JSON by hand are the way to go, imo.
Personally I use GeoFabrik to download OSM extracts → osmconvert to extract the smaller bounding box I am interested in → tilemaker to render vector tiles to individual .pbf files I can serve like it's 1999. The bounding box extract is not necessary, but it's much faster if you need to tweak things in tilemaker. Both tilemaker and osmconvert are packaged for at least Debian out of the box, so setup is easy enough. Rendering a decently sized metro area takes < 30mins with this from scratch of compute, < 5min with the bounding box extract.
Note that adding icons (sprites) or fonts is extra work that comes on top. And while the tools themselves are great, there's still a lot of gluing/plumbing/fitting things together that you'll need to do. If headwaymaps works for you, it's probably the easiest choice.
- Google Location History-type program, but on a private server for anyone to run?
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Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap
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
Another self hostable OSM stack that seems promising is headway
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maps.earth: Open-source maps for everyone, powered by Headway and OpenStreetMap
About: https://about.maps.earth/
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What is the easiest way to deploy OSM on the premise? like nominatim.openstreetmap.org, but offline version.
Something like this? https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway
- Self-hostable maps stack, powered by OpenStreetMap
- Headway is a self-hosted alternative to Google Maps which supports 200+ cities across the globe
photon
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pelias VS photon - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 15 Nov 2023
Photon by Komoot is also using Elasticsearch for validating addresses and locations.
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Autocomplete address from google places and mapbox seem to be extremely expensive. Is there any other good alternatives?
Alternatively, you could run your own Photon API: https://github.com/komoot/photon
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The New GraphHopper Maps Route Planner
Open Source. The routing server is open source too and geocoding too.
- What is the easiest way to deploy OSM on the premise? like nominatim.openstreetmap.org, but offline version.
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GraphHopper Routing Engine - Open Source Route Planning
To fully self-host a route planner (e.g. a "Google Maps" equivalent) you need GraphHopper for the routing and two other parts: you also need some visualization aka "maps" (e.g. with OpenMapTiles) and you need the address search (e.g. with Photon).
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Question about privacy with Waze vs GMaps
There exists photon, but I don't know if it's used in any libre mapping app.
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PSA: Use Acastus-Photon for better search for maps apps like OsmAnd
Acastus-Photon is an Android app that allows you to search up any address or point of interest on OpenStreetMaps and open it in OsmAnd or any other maps app. It relies on photon as it's open-source backend server (provides elasticsearch for OSM), so you can either use a public instance or self-host. This allows you to have search functionality as powerful as Google Maps whilst being able to use solely open-source software instead.
- OsmAnd~ address finding is terrible, copy and pasting lat and long is inconvenient, any alternatives that also respect your privacy?
What are some alternatives?
openstreetmap-tile-server - Docker file for a minimal effort OpenStreetMap tile server
Nominatim - Open Source search based on OpenStreetMap data
planetiler - Flexible tool to build planet-scale vector tilesets from OpenStreetMap data fast
pelias - Pelias is a modular open-source geocoder using Elasticsearch.
vgtk - A declarative desktop UI framework for Rust built on GTK and Gtk-rs
Graphhopper - Open source routing engine for OpenStreetMap. Use it as Java library or standalone web server.
inspiral-web - The web version of the Inspiral app.
Acastus - A completely free and open source Address and POI lookup application for android.
mod_mbtiles - Serve tiles with Apache directly from an .mbtiles file
openrouteservice - 🌍 The open source route planner api with plenty of features.
maplibre-gl-js - MapLibre GL JS - Interactive vector tile maps in WebGL2
Elasticsearch - Free and Open, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine