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Re: Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps

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Post by zylepe »

ellenhp wrote: post #31
2Gkashmiri wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

could we.... uh, have our server for a specific city or town for example if the use case is around that area only? that would save a lot of resources

Yup! That's how most people run Headway right now. You can probably get by with around 2GB of RAM for a medium-sized metro, possibly even less. Also for full-planet requirements, the OVH box running maps.earth has 64GB of RAM and 6 physical cores and is really struggling right now. Load average is about 40, most its CPU time is spent on the Valhalla service. Really enjoying watching the metrics right now :)

You may have chosen Valhalla for other reasons, but FWIW I’ve found Graphhopper can handle 1-2 orders of magnitude more qps than Valhalla on the same hardware.

Re: Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps

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Post by jonas-w »

codethief wrote: post #38

Very impressive! Is it just me (Firefox on Android) or does the UI really not allow tapping landmarks (shops, restaurants, subway stations)? Also, directions don't seem to work right now (infinite loading) but I suppose this is due to the server receiving the HN hug of death right now. By the way, for anyone looking for the mobile (non-web) version of this: Organic Maps is a fantastic frontend for OpenStreetMaps (and…

Thanks for Organic Maps!

The website doesn't seem to work for me either on mobile.

Re: Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps

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Post by juliansimioni »

ellenhp wrote: post #29
owenpalmer wrote: post #26

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Not working for me either. No results show up, even for common places like LA.

Yeah, I've noticed that at least the way Pelias is configured in Headway, searches for administrative areas don't seem to work, like at all. I'm not sure if that's a config issue or an issue with Pelias though. Address search should definitely work as long as there's an appropriately tagged OSM node for your address, but the server's load average is 40 on a 6 core OVH box in Germany so you might have to be (very) pat…

Hi! Maintainer of Pelias here and co-founder of Geocode Earth where we continue to fund Pelias development through our SaaS and consulting.

You need to bring Who's on First data in to support administrative areas, it won't use admin areas from OSM. This is a bit of a technical choice (WOF has some nice features like stable IDs and a rich hierarchy, and a data format that's much easier to work with), but also the result of the Who's on First project and Pelias being developed together while we were at Mapzen.

Don't hesitate to reach out to us if you need help getting things set up.

Re: Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps

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Post by c0nsumer »

This seems really neat. I have a question that I hope isn't something I'm missing, but is there an easy way to change the rendering ruleset? I ask because I've been wanting to build some custom maps for mountain bike trails in the state where I live and have them served up similarly.

Whenever I've looked into other projects for this it's either focused on rendering tiles from Mapbox data (where not all the OSM tags -- especially not MTBing ones -- are available) or really old info or presumes that someone else will be generating tiles.

Re: Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps

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Post by ellenhp »

zylepe wrote: post #41
ellenhp wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup! That's how most people run Headway right now. You can probably get by with around 2GB of RAM for a medium-sized metro, possibly even less. Also for full-planet requirements, the OVH box running maps.earth has 64GB of RAM and 6 physical cores and is really struggling right now. Load average is about 40, most its CPU time is spent on the Valhalla service. Really enjoying watching the metrics right now :)

You may have chosen Valhalla for other reasons, but FWIW I’ve found Graphhopper can handle 1-2 orders of magnitude more qps than Valhalla on the same hardware.

I wasn't happy with cycling directions in GraphHopper and I was having trouble getting route shapes from its routing endpoint which made it really difficult to plot route polylines on the map. I've also been looking forward to exposing some customization of routing parameters since valhalla allows you to do this fairly trivially. That is good to know, though. Valhalla really is getting hammered by all this traffic. :/

Re: Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps

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Post by ellenhp »

c0nsumer wrote: post #45

This seems really neat. I have a question that I hope isn't something I'm missing, but is there an easy way to change the rendering ruleset? I ask because I've been wanting to build some custom maps for mountain bike trails in the state where I live and have them served up similarly. Whenever I've looked into other projects for this it's either focused on rendering tiles from Mapbox data (where not all the OSM tags -…

This is tracked here: https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway/issues/85

It's going to be somewhat tricky because of a few mediocre decisions I made early on in the development process, but if you were up for helping out I'd love to get a bring-your-own-style experience working in Headway. Long-term, I want to add the ability to easily brand Headway and customize it for your own needs without forking it.

Re: Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps

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Post by ellenhp »

vanous wrote: post #42

This is amazing, thank you very much! It is really tempting to spin up a small instance for hyper local maps.

If you do spin one up, feel free to join the matrix and share the experience or just email me with feedback. I'm trying to get this as frictionless as possible to set up because I want people to own their own location data.

Headway is much much more responsive on a local scale than it is in https://maps.earth/ and the search results are more relevant too. My own personal instance for Seattle has largely replaced Google Maps for me. :)

Re: Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps

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Post by ellenhp »

juliansimioni wrote: post #44
ellenhp wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I've noticed that at least the way Pelias is configured in Headway, searches for administrative areas don't seem to work, like at all. I'm not sure if that's a config issue or an issue with Pelias though. Address search should definitely work as long as there's an appropriately tagged OSM node for your address, but the server's load average is 40 on a 6 core OVH box in Germany so you might have to be (very) pat…

Hi! Maintainer of Pelias here and co-founder of Geocode Earth where we continue to fund Pelias development through our SaaS and consulting. You need to bring Who's on First data in to support administrative areas, it won't use admin areas from OSM. This is a bit of a technical choice (WOF has some nice features like stable IDs and a rich hierarchy, and a data format that's much easier to work with), but also the resu…

Is there a contact point you'd prefer me to use for reaching out? I'm pretty sure I'm using WOF for bringing up Pelias but it's entirely possible I'm configuring things wrong. I'm also having a lot of trouble getting good performance out of the viewport biasing on the autocomplete endpoint (`focus.point`). Photon has `location_bias_scale` which allowed me to do very strong viewport biasing for zoomed-in queries and eliminate it almost entirely when zoomed out.

Is this something that could be added? I don't mind doing a bit of legwork if need be. This is important enough that I'm willing to throw a few weeks at implementing it.

The pelias.json for this instance is at: https://publicdata.ellenhp.workers.dev/planet-v1.16.pelias.j...

I'll go double check that the placeholder container is operating correctly, actually. :)

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