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omapsapp
Discontinued 🍃 Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists. It uses crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and is developed with love by the community. No ads, no tracking, no data collection, no crapware. Please donate to support the development!
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maplibre-native
MapLibre Native - Interactive vector tile maps for iOS, Android and other platforms.
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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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abstreet
Transportation planning and traffic simulation software for creating cities friendlier to walking, biking, and public transit
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MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format
Unfortunately, Tilemaker hasn't planned or cannot plan to support MLT in the medium-term.
That will leave a significant part of the community out of this transition.
See this interesting (and quite heated) discussion : https://github.com/systemed/tilemaker/issues/856
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OpenStreetMap's software ecosystem and tools
OpenStreetMap does not officially maintain any first-party vector tile server packages, but several open source packages exist for generating and serving tiles (tilemaker, mbtileserver, Martin, etc.), along with several tile providers as a service. Vector Tiles were a project that originally came out of commercial map provider Mapbox to enable new map capabilities, like rotating a map while maintaining the text orientation. You can read more about the history of vector maps on daniel-j-h's blog post.
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Vector Tiles are deployed on OpenStreetMap.org
In case you wonder how much time / resources it takes to generate vector tiles, I'm running benchmarks with Tilemaker here for https://cartes.app
https://github.com/systemed/tilemaker/issues/839
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Self hosted maps for (practically) free
Tilemaker is tool for transforming map data. We can use it to take our source .osm.pbf file and transform it into a .pmtiles file. The best thing about Tilemaker is that you can use a lua script to organize map features into layers however you want. In this post I am going to take trail data (osm tag highway=path) and make it available for much higher zoom levels than it is normally available. I want my map to show trails when zoomed really far out.
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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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2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps
You can download an extract of your country from Geofabrik, run it through Tilemaker (https://github.com/systemed/tilemaker) to get a nice mbtiles file, and then use the built-in Ruby server to give you something you can load in your web-browser locally.
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How The Post is replacing Mapbox with open source solutions
I ran into this solution last week on HN and decided to give it a try. The pipeline that got me up and running was geofabrik osm.pbf[0] downloads, pass those into tilemaker[1] to create mbtiles, and then pass those into pmtiles[2] to make the pmtiles.
[0]: https://download.geofabrik.de/index.html
[1]: https://github.com/systemed/tilemaker
[2]: https://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles
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COMTiles (Cloud Optimized Map Tiles) hosted on Amazon S3 and Visualized with MapLibre GL JS
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Can I render tiles directly from osm.pbf data without a database?
If you do vector tiles instead of raster, you could use tilemaker: https://github.com/systemed/tilemaker
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