vector-datasource vs TileServer GL

vector-datasource

Tilezen vector tile service - OpenStreetMap data in several formats (by tilezen)

#vector-tiles #Tile #plpgsql #Openstreetmap #mvt #Geojson #topojson #natural-earth #whosonfirst #Map #Cartography #basemap #Mapzen #Python

Source Code

nextzen.org

TileServer GL

Vector and raster maps with GL styles. Server side rendering by Mapbox GL Native. Map tile server for Mapbox GL JS, Android, iOS, Leaflet, OpenLayers, GIS via WMTS, etc. (by maptiler)

#Maps and Global Positioning System (GPS) #MapBBCodeShare #tileserver #wmts #raster-map #Docker #vector-tiles #tileserver-gl #gl-styles #openmaptiles #mapbox-gl-js

Source Code

tileserver.readthedocs.io

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vector-datasource		TileServer GL
	Project
3	Mentions	5
454	Stars	1,475
1.3%	Growth	3.0%
9.4	Activity	1.4
about 17 hours ago	Latest Commit	13 days ago
Python	Language	JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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vector-datasource

Posts with mentions or reviews of vector-datasource. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-13.

Show HN: 3D map of shade around the world
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jan 2022
GPX replay map that shows terrain shadows during activities
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Oct 2021

Nextzen has freely available DEM tile data to zoom level 15, so about 5 meters/pixel. You need a free API key [1]
Mapbox has paid DEM data to zoom level 20, but I think it's just zoom level 15 scaled up (but the data is cleaner and more recent) [2]
Nextzen also open-sourced their elevation tile generator, but I haven't tried to generate my own tiles [3]
[1] https://www.nextzen.org/#terrain-tiles
XYZ Vector tile server
3 projects | reddit.com/r/openstreetmap | 6 Oct 2021

I found the Nextzen version but have some issues for now to run it properly https://github.com/tilezen/vector-datasource

TileServer GL

Posts with mentions or reviews of TileServer GL. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-03.

Shade Map Pro
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Mar 2022
XYZ Vector tile server
3 projects | reddit.com/r/openstreetmap | 6 Oct 2021
Offline Map Tiles
3 projects | reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 3 Jul 2021

You could host something like tileserver-gl (https://github.com/maptiler/tileserver-gl) and use the pre-generated vector tiles from https://archive.org/details/osm-vector-mbtiles Add some map styles and you have your own offline map service. Here are some good starters for styles: https://github.com/openmaptiles/osm-bright-gl-style
Need help finding a server-compatible GPU
1 project | reddit.com/r/HomeServer | 25 Mar 2021

This server is intended to be a tile server, taking vector data and rendering it to rasterized tile images via tileserver-gl (which uses OpenGL)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vector-datasource and TileServer GL you can also consider the following projects:

TileServer PHP - MBTiles and MapTiler folder hosting with TileJSON, OGC WMTS, UTFGrid interaction and web interface. QGIS & ESRI ArcGIS compatible. Runs on any Apache+PHP webhosting. MapBox Studio Vector Tiles hosting.

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

Nominatim - Open Source search based on OpenStreetMap data

openstreetmap-tile-server - Docker file for a minimal effort OpenStreetMap tile server

Hauk - Open-source realtime location sharing

μlogger - μlogger • web viewer for tracks uploaded with μlogger mobile client

TkinterMapView - A python Tkinter widget to display tile based maps like OpenStreetMap or Google Satellite Images.

Geo2tz - A self-hostable REST-like API to get the time zone from geo coordinates

OpenTripPlanner - An open source multi-modal trip planner

osm-bright-gl-style - OSM Bright GL Style using OpenMapTiles

InterpolateHeatmapLayer - Minimalist JavaScript library for rendering temperature maps (or interpolate heatmaps) with Mapbox GJ JS

OpenArdenneMap - Une carte pour l'Ardenne

TileServer GL vs TileServer PHP