Top 23 Cartography Open-Source Projects

• prettymaps

  50 10,844 0.0 Jupyter Notebook

  A small set of Python functions to draw pretty maps from OpenStreetMap data. Based on osmnx, matplotlib and shapely libraries.

Project mention: Show HN: Map2Image – Download Beautiful City Maps | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-17

These maps look great! Reminds me of a project I saw a long time ago [1]. Glad you made this downloadable for everyone who cannot write code.

P.S.: Now, I also have some (birthday) presents ;-)

[1] https://github.com/marceloprates/prettymaps

• Fantasy-Map-Generator

  597 4,276 8.6 JavaScript

  Web application generating interactive and highly customizable maps

Project mention: CC0-licensed fantasy map brushes based on historical cartography | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-21

Adding to the other answers, there are also -besides Photoshop, Gimp, etc- specialized tools to draw fantasy maps. The site mentions Wonderdraft [0], but there are a bunch of others though not all of them support using external brushes.

Some other tools in this space may be Watabou's tools [1], Azgaar's tools [2], Inkarnate [3], Mapforge [4], or quite a few more which you can find links to in this list [5]. Again: you could use these brushes with some of these; not all support external brushes.

[0] https://www.wonderdraft.net/

[1] https://watabou.github.io/

[2] https://azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/

[3] https://inkarnate.com/

[4] https://www.mapforge-software.com/

[5] https://www.mapforge-software.com/links-to-map-making-apps/

• SurveyJS

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• mapnik

  1 3,548 8.7 C++

  Mapnik is an open source toolkit for developing mapping applications

  

• prettymapp

  6 2,176 7.3 Python

  🖼️ Create beautiful maps from OpenStreetMap data in a streamlit webapp

Project mention: FLaNK Stack Weekly 28 August 2023 | dev.to | 2023-08-28

• maputnik

  10 1,982 8.3 TypeScript

  An open source visual editor for the 'MapLibre Style Specification'

  

• fixinventory

  38 1,540 9.6 Python

  Fix Inventory consolidates user, resource, and configuration data from your cloud environments into a unified, graph-based asset inventory.

  

Project mention: Show HN: Fix – An open source cloud asset inventory for cloud security engineers | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-27

The reasoning is explained in the very section of our Github org README you quoted this sentence from. Our main open source project is Fix Inventory (https://github.com/someengineering/fixinventory) and that is very well documented (https://inventory.fix.security) and uses no commercial 3rd party libraries.

The Fix SaaS frontend that you're referring to and that you find at https://fix.security builds upon Fix Inventory. We could have just made it closed-source like every other SaaS (think Grafana Cloud). But because I'm a big proponent of OSS we decided to open source our entire SaaS stack, frontend, backend as well as all internal tooling. The main intend here is transparency, not so you spin up your own SaaS environment.

Essentially we develop the SaaS for ourselves first and foremost, but saw no reason to make it closed source. So that is why it might be using any number of commercial 3rd party add-ons.

> I'm curious to know what Material UI provided that any other open-source UI library did not.

I believe it was some MUI X table features like multi row sorting that we didn't feel like re-implementing. I'm sure there's other open source libs that would do that, but we've settled on MUI and are not going to start mixing different UI libraries for different visual elements if we don't absolutely have to.

• GEOSwift

  0 1,419 5.0 Swift

  The Swift Geometry Engine.

  

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• asteroids_atlas_of_space

  15 1,189 0.0 Jupyter Notebook

  Code, data, and instructions for mapping orbits of asteroids in the solar system

• uMap

  14 1,024 9.9 JavaScript

  uMap lets you create maps with OpenStreetMap layers in a minute and embed them in your site. (by umap-project)

  

Project mention: Anything you wish there was an open source solution for? | /r/selfhosted | 2023-05-16

Umap?

• protomaps-leaflet

  2 687 7.8 TypeScript

  Lightweight vector map rendering + labeling and symbology for Leaflet

  

Project mention: Microsoft Joins the MapLibre Sponsorship Program | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-24

• vector-datasource

  3 493 2.4 Python

  Tilezen vector tile service - OpenStreetMap data in several formats

  

• map33.js

  1 420 0.0 JavaScript

  A JavaScript library to make 3D maps with three.js.

• osm-liberty

  1 387 7.4 Python

  A free Mapbox GL basemap style for everyone

  

• bertin

  2 292 6.7 JavaScript

  A package to draw maps in javascript

  

• basemaps

  1 265 8.8 Java

  Basemap PMTiles generation and cartographic styles for OpenStreetMap data and more (by protomaps)

  

Project mention: Protomaps – A free and open source map of the world | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-23

The protomaps base map is also built on planetiler: https://github.com/protomaps/basemaps - and Brandon also contributes a lot of improvements to planetiler!

• sas.planet.src

  1 233 9.2 Pascal
  

Project mention: 2024: The year of the OpenStreetMap vector maps | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-11

• openstreetmap-americana

  8 166 9.4 JavaScript

  A quintessentially American map style

Project mention: The current state of map design in OpenStreetMap | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-20

Nice for driving, but not for walking. Look how much pedestrian info is simply not rendered in my home area. Tons of stairs and walkways are not visible:

https://zelonewolf.github.io/openstreetmap-americana/#map=16...

• osmic

  1 107 2.6 HTML

  CC0 SVG Map Icons, mirror of repo on Gitlab

  

• figma-plugin

  1 74 3.9 TypeScript

  Create maps with Figma

  

• cim-spec

  2 73 3.7

  This repository hosts the specification for the Cartographic Information Model

  

• noita-mapcap

  1 63 8.6 Lua

  A tool to capture a Noita world as a huge image

• s60-maps

  9 57 5.8 C++

  Yet another maps for Symbian OS

• Awesome-Historic_al-Maps

  1 52 7.0 HTML

  Historic(al) Maps: Meta guidance, tools, repositories, databases, search engines, and online resources for the exploration of Historic and Historical Maps.

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