mod_mbtiles VS mbtiles-php

Compare mod_mbtiles vs mbtiles-php and see what are their differences.

mod_mbtiles

Serve tiles with Apache directly from an .mbtiles file (by systemed)

mbtiles-php

PHP backend for reading tiles from mbtiles databases (by infostreams)
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mod_mbtiles mbtiles-php
3 1
17 124
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10.0 10.0
over 1 year ago over 8 years ago
C PHP
- MIT License
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mod_mbtiles

Posts with mentions or reviews of mod_mbtiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-30.

mbtiles-php

Posts with mentions or reviews of mbtiles-php. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-30.
  • Host your own OpenStreetMap Map Tiles
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Aug 2022
    You can host .mbtiles files with PHP very easily. I wrote a tiny piece of code 9 years ago that I used for a high traffic map server and it worked just fine. https://github.com/infostreams/mbtiles-php

    I'm sure there are newer solutions out there, which might have more features and are actually maintained. But this did (and still does) the job.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mod_mbtiles and mbtiles-php you can also consider the following projects:

PMTiles - Cloud-optimized + compressed single-file tile archives for vector and raster maps

kvtiles - Self hosted maps, PMTiles, MBTiles key value storage and server

mbtiles-s3-server - Python server to on-the-fly extract and serve vector tiles from an mbtiles file on S3

headway - Self-hostable maps stack, powered by OpenStreetMap.

ngx_http_mbtiles_module - A nginx module to serve map tiles directly from mbtiles container files

operations - OSMF Operations Working Group issue tracking

planetiler - Flexible tool to build planet-scale vector tilesets from OpenStreetMap data fast

eyros - interval database

Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) - Open Source Routing Machine - C++ backend