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I've always wondered why people keep adding the s. Is it marketing because Google Map sounds like a spelling mistake (missing 's after Google) and we're noticing the effect of that other brand, or is there something about OpenStreetMap that makes it seem like a plural project? People don't say Linuxes, Signals, or Androids
Maybe because "Google Map" is actually called "Google Maps" (with the s)?
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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tools, their relations and features, limitations, that is rarely explained well, or explanaitions are often terribly outdated.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 proje…
It is more like a sample of cool stuff you can do.
While useful, this still uses a server to process tile requests. Why not https://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles ? For the record, I am currently using maptiler over at https://citybik.es to serve tiles, and I am evaluating moving to serving static pmtiles on range requests to cut the middle man
Hosting maps of the entire planet in a single file doesn't seem practical. How do you keep it updated? PMTiles is good for small local maps, but I don't think they're meant for this scale.
Does anyone know if there is a way to host just a few of the tiles in a static way? For example, if I wanted to build a web page which just shows a map at zoom level 6 for a lat/lng point, and then go to zoom level 13. That would require a tiny subset of tiles; is there a simple way to add the tiles plus the JS code in a static way so no external downloads were necessary?
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I assumed you would keep it updated the same way you do with mbtiles, but I see that mbtiles are an sqlite so I guess you can do atomic updates with mbtiles. Note though that there are many cases on which served tile information rarely changes. A lot of us are serving a once-downloaded mbtile file and are using this just to _not_ use a provider (mapbox, ...)
> Note though that there are many cases on which served tile information rarely changes. It depends on what you're doing, but outdated maps can be worse than no maps. On low zoom values that probably works fine, but new buildings and streets are built everyday all over the world.
If you need updates more often than once a week, you're going to have to take a different approach, since OSM only publish their database exports once a week. In that case you're going to have to use the OSM API to query their database for changes directly and it is only reasonable to track and manage continuous updates on a relatively small surface area.
All of this is of course ignoring the fact that there can be a time lag of anything from hours to decades between a house being built and that house being added to OSM.
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You can simply pre-render them and store the png tiles in a folder. The folder structure and naming has to be such that e.g. leaflet understands it. Did this for a research demo here: https://map2seq.schumann.pub/nllni/demo/
Is there actually a simple way to pre-render? AFAIK it's a lot of work and learning at least if you're coming from scratch.
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Maybe because "Google Map" is actually called "Google Maps" (with the s)?
But where does the plural come from?
Also "Google Map" sounds like a map of Google.
While useful, this still uses a server to process tile requests. Why not https://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles ? For the record, I am currently using maptiler over at https://citybik.es to serve tiles, and I am evaluating moving to serving static pmtiles on range requests to cut the middle man