PMTiles Alternatives

PMTiles reviews and mentions

• Mapbox GL JS adds support for PMTiles vector and raster sources
  2 projects | dev.to | 30 Apr 2026

  PMTiles is a single-file open source format for storing tiled map data — vector or raster — built for random access over HTTP range requests. Host one on any static file server and you have a fully functional tileset, no complicated backend required.

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  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Mar 2026
• MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jan 2026

  PMtiles is often used with MVT tiles, but it can encapsulate a variety of tile types: the current spec [1] has defined tile types for MVT, PNG, JPEG, WebP and AVIF (plus "Unknown/Other").

  [1]: https://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles/blob/main/spec/v3/spec....

• Anatomy of a MapServer: how to leverage and visualize your geographical data
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Mar 2024

  I am a novice at GIS and mapping but when I got started I thought a map/tile server was the only way to build mapping webapps.

  But, in my admittedly simple application PMTiles can cover a lot of my visualization use cases with a thing Django app doing GEOJson for interactive stuff.

  https://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles

• Geospatial Nix – create, use and deploy today
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Feb 2024

  This is awesome. Such a great use case for nix.

  I do a lot of geospatial processing in the cloud and I've been using Tippecanoe a lot to create vector tiles. It pairs well with PM Tiles for storing on the cloud. It seriously increases the web app performance for massive data sets. I queue these up with ECS tasks to process our json/csv/parquet input and create optimize vector tile outputs.

  https://github.com/felt/tippecanoe

  https://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles

  Tippecanoe would be a great addition to your nix packages. I've been thinking more and more about how Nix could fit into this pipeline.

  Great work!

• Serve Maps From S3: Compressed single-file tiles for vector and raster maps
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Aug 2023
• Made an interactive bike map of my city using OSM data
  3 projects | /r/openstreetmap | 23 Mar 2023
• Serverless maps at 1/700 the cost of Google Maps API
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Mar 2023

  The thing being discussed is designed for cloud, so I think self managed is a better description?

  https://protomaps.com/docs/cdn

  Self hosting pmtiles is straightforward also, make a file available to a server that supports range requests:

  https://protomaps.com/docs/pmtiles#2.-serve-your-file-locall...

• How The Post is replacing Mapbox with open source solutions
  1 project | /r/gis | 18 Feb 2023

  It might've just been this: https://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles/tree/main/serverless/aws

  21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Feb 2023

  There isn't a tool to do that right now. It could be a fit in either https://github.com/protomaps/go-pmtiles or https://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles/tree/main/python - the Go program is faster and more production ready at this point. I imagine if folders are working for you the quantity of tiles doesn't number into the millions, so the Python program might be sufficient.

  Feel free to open an issue.

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