A new way to make maps with OpenStreetMap

1. tippecanoe

   1 7 2,825 1.5 C++

   Build vector tilesets from large collections of GeoJSON features.

   

   Author here, so there are a few options:

   1) If your information belongs in OpenStreetMap, you can add it via an editor like the web editor at https://openstreetmap.org - this will also benefit all other OSM users. You can then "refresh" your Protomaps download to get a new map.

   2) If there isn't many point and polygons, it may sense to add them as Leaflet layers, especially if you want them to be interactive

   3) Other options are creating vector tiles of your own data and merging or displaying them in the renderer (https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe is a great tool to do this from GeoJSON) but I don't have much to support this yet.

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

   

3. tilemaker

   2 19 1,608 7.3 C++

   Make OpenStreetMap vector tiles without the stack

   

   Depending on your needs, tilemaker (https://github.com/systemed/tilemaker) may be the least painful way for generating tiles from OSM data with modifications to it. Or at least it seems to be the least painful way of doing that that I've found so far.

4. kothic-js

   3 1 453 0.0 JavaScript

   Kothic JS — a full-featured JavaScript map rendering engine using HTML5 Canvas

   

   This is very nice! Happy to see a few of my libraries in the dependencies :)

   Also check out https://github.com/kothic/kothic-js, an older but similar attempt at making a full-fledged map renderer using 2D Canvas. It has a pretty good label rendering in particular which you might find useful.

5. openmaptiles

   4 9 2,684 5.9 PLpgSQL

   OpenMapTiles Vector Tile Schema Implementation

   

6. geos

   5 3 1,302 9.4 C++

   Geometry Engine, Open Source

   

7. Leaflet

   6 234 42,546 8.5 JavaScript

   🍃 JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps 🇺🇦

   

   Author of the OP here. I don't have a GIS background in particular; I do have a decade of experience building web mapping applications, and here's some of the foundational software I use:

   http://leafletjs.com

8. gdal

   7 45 5,232 10.0 C++

   GDAL is an open source MIT licensed translator library for raster and vector geospatial data formats.

   

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10. PMTiles

    8 17 2,268 8.5 TypeScript

    Pyramids of map tiles in a single file on static storage

    

11. ownmap-app

    9 1 3 5.4 Go

    Open source geographic map renderer

    

    Really interesting project/product! It's really nice to see new ways of rendering OSM data, and alternative map services.

    I am developing another way to run your own map server (without mapnik!) from a low-end computer (https://github.com/jamesrr39/ownmap-app in case you're interested), but a little bit different to you in that I'm currently focusing on rendering raster tiles. I'm really happy I saw this thread, however, I hadn't heard of the OSM Express, MBTiles or PMTiles formats before and was/am rolling my own format, so it's really interesting looking at some ideas from these.

    Thanks again for sharing your project!

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