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planetiler
Flexible tool to build planet-scale vector tilesets from OpenStreetMap data fast
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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PMTiles
Cloud-optimized + compressed single-file tile archives for vector and raster maps
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pelias VS photon - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 15 Nov 2023
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Is there an OSM API endpoint to geocode an address and get back a lat + long?
https://pelias.io is another self hostable one. In my experience it performs better than nominatim
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Mantle – Serverless Maps Using Lambda or Cloudflare Workers
The stack I describe in the post is only for map tiles - Map tiles are a good fit for CDNs because the input space is small (just Z/X/Y coordinates on a square grid) and thus very cacheable.
Geocoding is a very different problem because the input space - human language - is much, much larger, and answering queries quickly to support features like autocomplete really requires a server with hot data in memory.
One of my favorite projects in this space is Pelias https://pelias.io which is an open source auto-completing geocoder based on OSM plus other open data. It's backed by a great team that also runs a business: Geocode Earth https://geocode.earth
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Should you contribute open data to OpenStreetMap for free?
Here is why you should contribute to OSM even though there are major players profiting from it:
OSM is big enough and good enough that all the tech giants (except Google) would do better to start with OSM and improve it to meet their needs than to start a new, completely proprietary map from scratch.
That means that we are in an amazing place where in addition to the substantial volunteer OSM community, there are contributions from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and hundreds or thousands of smaller companies all coming back in to a single global map that everyone can use. It's very worth it to do work that strengthens OSM, as it increases the number of companies that will use it, and possibly contribute back, rather than doing work the world at large won't benefit from.
P.S. As a disclaimer, I am co-founder of Geocode Earth (https://geocode.earth) a small business that does indeed profit from OSM (and other open) data. We also contribute back both through OSM contributions and by releasing our core software as the Pelias geocoder (https://pelias.io)
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A note from our sponsor - SaaSHub
www.saashub.com | 28 Mar 2024
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pelias/pelias is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of pelias is Twig.