OSM is OpenStreetMaps. This appears to be a server to locally mirror the ~90GB global tile set and serve them with your choice of style to OSM client applications.
Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps
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Re: Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps
#12Same feedback as everyone else: You fell into the trap of assuming that everyone else understands this topic/project/thing that you're deeply familiar with because you've been living it for so long.
Not everyone knows what "OSM" is.
Even a 2-3 sentence paragraph in your TL;DR that explains (a) what this is and (b) why people should care or want this, would be immensely helpful.
Re: Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps
#13Image, screenshot, Gifs, anything really so I can see what it looks like before allocating 90GBS would be nice.
Re: Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps
#14Image, screenshot, Gifs, anything really so I can see what it looks like before allocating 90GBS would be nice.
90 is okay, when I did years ago I was on 300+ but it doesn't really state which zoom level is available.
Re: Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps
#15Where is my .exe file to run the entire planet in ~30 minutes?
To add some value to my joke comment: I would assume this is running "Open Street Map" locally on a webserver.
Re: Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps
#16Because various comments are upset that this isn't actually self-hosting a planet simulation[0] or that the readme isn't good enough - this is really cool. Premade tile server for OpenStreetMaps is lovely.
Re: Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps
#17I remember when I worked on a project in 2010-2012 that relied on OSM it took days to set up a part of the system, the documentation was mostly in German or if you were lucky in an arcane bash script, and which part did what required a deep understanding of the entire thing. I don’t need this anymore but this is really nice.
Re: Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Found little more info in homepage https://github.com/markuman/sms
Still barely more detailed. The problem with the whole OSM ecosystem is that it expects a lot of domain knowledge of technologies, formats, tools, their relations and features, limitations, that is rarely explained well, or explanaitions are often terribly outdated. Feels much like the JavaScript Frontend frameworks for an outsider, it is a lot of effort to get to an overview and understanding, despite the concepts a…
Usually this is a sign of a project that isn't ready for a lot of attention. It's very brave and a little bit stupid to offer Open Source to the world (especially without a sustainability plan), if you put a lot of effort into 'marketing' at an early stage you've probably just overpromised to people not focused on that domain, won't be able to deliver, and will burn out, and it will become yet another abandoned project.
Perhaps in a few years, as the project picks up uses and contributors, it will get its own website and support network and be easy to understand and use by "anyone."
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#19I wish the readme explained what this project actually was instead of the incredibly vague and unhelpful "self host the entire planet".
> incredibly vague and unhelpful As is very common with projects on Github. They should have a paragraph at the start explaining simply what they do.
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Re: Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps
#20So I assume if I run this I can aim something like leaflet at it for the map tiles?
Any information you have on how production-ready this is would be nice. Things such as performance, stability, max expected clients with a small vps or something.