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MapTiler: Map overlay, cut map tiles for Google Maps, GIS layers and mobile apps

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Re: MapTiler: Map overlay, cut map tiles for Google Maps, GIS layers and mobile apps

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That, and OSM helps you find things other than retail outlets.

Are you suggesting OSM has better point-of-interest search than Google Maps? I love OSM, but this doesn't match my experience at all. Can you provide a bit more detail, maybe some examples of searches that OSM has better data for than Google?

For me, it's the user experience. Searching for anything recreational will bombard you with hotels, restaurants, etc. It's nice to be free of this information at times.

Re: MapTiler: Map overlay, cut map tiles for Google Maps, GIS layers and mobile apps

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Very cool, I recently wrote a map tiler that runs on AWS lambda and supports real-time tiling at any zoom level and real-time reprojection. Planning to open source it soon.

Keen to see this! Please contact me it you do.

Re: MapTiler: Map overlay, cut map tiles for Google Maps, GIS layers and mobile apps

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I used MapTiler to generate a graph of the largest connected nodes on the Disqus network: http://webrender.net/disqus-universe/

Found it fast and easy to use. Couldn't believe how difficult it would have been to render the tiles otherwise.

Re: MapTiler: Map overlay, cut map tiles for Google Maps, GIS layers and mobile apps

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That's what I thought originally - similar to Mapnik. But I've downloaded it and can't see any way to work from raw osm data.

The base is Openmaptiles ( https://openmaptiles.org ), to build from osm data you'd need to spin the infrastructure from docker. I posted the link to maptiler because in other threads people were looking for a simpler cloud instance (I'm at the sotm conference and they presented it)

Thanks! Openmaptiles looks like it might be exactly what I'm looking for at work. Enjoy the conference. I didn't know it existed but hopefully I can get my company to send me next year.

Re: MapTiler: Map overlay, cut map tiles for Google Maps, GIS layers and mobile apps

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The base is Openmaptiles ( https://openmaptiles.org ), to build from osm data you'd need to spin the infrastructure from docker. I posted the link to maptiler because in other threads people were looking for a simpler cloud instance (I'm at the sotm conference and they presented it)

Thanks! Openmaptiles looks like it might be exactly what I'm looking for at work. Enjoy the conference. I didn't know it existed but hopefully I can get my company to send me next year.

Next year is in Heidelberg from 21 to 23 September!
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