openstreetmap-tile-server VS planetiler

Hi fellow redditors! I have a custom tilemap that I wanted to self host and I conveniently found a good premade Docker solution (https://github.com/Overv/openstreetmap-tile-server) that would allow me to achieve the task quite easily if not for a minor inconvenience: i need to provide the map as .osm.pbf rather than as an ZXY folder tree.

Author here: the docker project for the tile server allows setting up automatic syncing fairly easily:

https://github.com/Overv/openstreetmap-tile-server#enabling-...

I'm not sure about Nominatim or Valhalla's ability to auto-sync the latest changes, at least with the dockerized version, but it may be possible.

We're in the same boat using Mapbox, we've been debating leaving for the OpenStreetMaps container since we only use them for static images and map display. https://github.com/Overv/openstreetmap-tile-server

Our bill last year was $80k and honestly its right on the cusp of being worth the effort to switch.

It's kinda difficult but I have had success running https://github.com/Overv/openstreetmap-tile-server and postgresql in docker to generate standard-style tiles from a planet (.pbf) file that you can download from geofabrik.

My friend Alexander created an easy docker file[1] for an OSM tile server. I use it for nearly two years without problems.

[1] https://github.com/Overv/openstreetmap-tile-server

I found this project on Github https://github.com/Overv/openstreetmap-tile-server .

Finally: https://github.com/Overv/openstreetmap-tile-server I haven't tried this one before, but it seems kind of cool, and seems to be what you're looking for?

I don't need to serve the whole country, but it's nice to have a little more than just Missouri, so I was pleased to find Protomaps. There are several other extract repositories, but this was the only one I found that let me define and export a custom region. For the actual generation and rendering of the tiles, it seemed easiest to use this existing docker project.

Hi, I'm struggling to use OSM self-hosted tile server for my project with custom style. I started to use Overv/openstreetmap-tile-server as a starting point to customize and create my own Dockerfile but I cannot set it up Positron (or something different dark/grayish as a starting point) as a renderer style. There are many styling standards, different file types, and no visual editor that can export the required file for CartoCSS, and to add them to Dockerfile.

Worth mentioning this project (https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler) that lets you create osm mbtiles and pmtiles pretty easy!

For a self-hosted vector tile stack you can have a look into https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler I found it very easy to get started and when you know the other stacks it is also very fast to create these vector tiles even for planet-scale.

(note, that I'm not affiliated with them, but they use some source code from us for the efficient import and also contributed to GraphHopper, but this did not influence my experience ;) )

> I wonder why so many seem to be moving away from raster tiles to vector data.

The flexibility of styling. And you can easily serve customers that need different default languages. This makes maps also more accessible for countries without Latin alphabet.

I used https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler and https://download.geofabrik.de, maybe it helps.

I spent a while optimizing sqlite inserts for planetiler, this is what I came up with:

https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler/blob/db0ab02263baaa...

It batches inserts into bulk statements and is able to do writes in the 500k+ per second range, and reads are 300-400k/s using those settings.

Checkout https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler.

Super easy way to generate a MBTiles, which you can then serve directly, or further convert to PMTiles, which can be used to host vector tiles for client-side rendering using MapLibre (or other renderers).

Raster tiles are a lot harder because you have to generate them on the server, and that's a lot more resource intensive.

I built planetiler (https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler) for this purpose. The output up to z14 is ~80gb and depending on how big of a machine you have it takes from 30 minutes up to a few hours - no DB required, just java or docker. If you are only going to z11-12, it should be quite a bit faster/smaller.

Brandon from Protomaps is also helping add pmtiles output natively to planetiler, so you won't need a conversion step afterwards!

It's not raster directly, but you could use planetiler ( https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler ) to build a full planet vector map . Then you could use something like TileServer-GL to server the vector map with a style. TileServer-gl ( https://github.com/maptiler/tileserver-gl) would provide a raster source that displays in the style you set on your vector map.

I recently left Twitter after 9 years, most recently serving as tech lead for the knowledge graph group (was 45 people). I helped apply the KG to drive a large portion of Twitter’s revenue and new product launches. In my spare time I do data visualization and web mapping, most recently https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler