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LevelDB
LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values.
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TileServer GL
Vector and raster maps with GL styles. Server side rendering by MapLibre GL Native. Map tile server for MapLibre GL JS, Android, iOS, Leaflet, OpenLayers, GIS via WMTS, etc.
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openfreemap
Free and open-source map hosting solution with custom styles for websites and apps, using OpenStreetMap data
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sequentially-generate-planet-mbtiles
Generate vector tiles for the entire planet on relatively low spec hardware.
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OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles
> Static or infrequently updated vector tiles can be generated from OSM data by a number of tools, but those most popular right now are https://github.com/systemed/tilemaker and https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler
this is the first I've seen of these alternative tools compared to using Tippecanoe(https://github.com/felt/tippecanoe). Are they considered to be higher performance?
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Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting
Look into Planetiler [1] (which OP uses for tile generation). It supports downloading regions that are listed on Geofabrik [2] and converting them to mbtiles or pmtiles. If you need to extract an even smaller area from that result, GDAL has support for mbtiles so you could use gdalwarp [3] to extract a new mbtiles file out of it using bounds.
Another option is to use the extract functionality in pmtiles [4] to extract your area of interest from their daily builds. You can then statically host that file and use that in your client with one of their client libraries.
[1] https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler
[2] https://download.geofabrik.de/
[3] https://gdal.org/en/latest/programs/gdalwarp.html
[4] https://docs.protomaps.com/pmtiles/cli#extract
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Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Free OpenStreetMap Vector Tile Hosting
Hi HN,
After 9 years of running my own OpenStreetMap tile server infra for MapHub (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11389989), I’ve open-sourced it and launched OpenFreeMap — offering free, unlimited map tile hosting.
OpenFreeMap provides free map hosting for websites and apps with no limits, no registration, no API keys, and no cookies. It’s also fully open-source: see the code at https://github.com/hyperknot/openfreemap and the styles at https://github.com/hyperknot/openfreemap-styles.
Why?
Using OpenStreetMap data usually requires paying for hosting or dealing with complex self-hosting. I wanted to make it easy and accessible for everyone.
How does it work?
Tiles are served directly from Btrfs partition images containing 300 million hard-linked files, avoiding the overhead of a tile server and leveraging Linux kernel file caching.
Key components:
- Tile Generation: Planetiler (https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler)
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Protomaps – A free and open source map of the world
Worth mentioning this project (https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler) that lets you create osm mbtiles and pmtiles pretty easy!
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Radar Maps: $0.50 per 1K map loads
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.
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I honestly don't like using most Openstreetmap websites: slow, clunky. Is there a better way to do this faster on my own desktop?
I used https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler and https://download.geofabrik.de, maybe it helps.
- Mapping LA's Soft-Story Building Earthquake Retrofits [OC]
- Mapping LA's Soft-Story Building Earthquake Retrofit Program [OC]
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SQLite performance tuning: concurrent reads, multiple GBs and 100k SELECTs/s
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.
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How The Post is replacing Mapbox with open source solutions
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.
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