Is the data shared between vector tiles, geocoding and directions? Or is each feature pulling its data from a different index?
I don't think they share the index as all three parts are different projects.
Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps
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Re: Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps
#112A few things that I notice in the area where I'm somewhat active as an OSM contributor: - You probably shouldn't render guideposts or route markers on the map, or at least not with generic "info" icon. - Things with access=private are likely not terribly relevant to people looking at the map. This will include things like parking spots or gardens. - Lots of shots and amenities have icons, but doctors don't. Neither d…
I'm using OSM Liberty [1] so as far as I know I should be just tracking upstream with most of these issues, but I think some of them might actually be introduced by planetiler [2]. Thanks for giving it such a detailed look though.
Re: Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps
#113Thanks for this. I'm curious to know: why did you include two routing engines (OTP and valhalla)? Wouldn't e.g. OTP sufficient and use much less resources compared to 2 setups? And why not reuse one of the existing open source map or directions front-ends?
OTP is a resource hog (for good reason, it solves a harder problem than valhalla). Covering a US state is very much pushing it for OTP, and covering the planet wouldn't work at all on any hardware.
I didn't use OTP's frontend because I found it unpleasant to use. Valhalla's frontend wouldn't work well with OTP and I don't find it terribly pleasant to use either.
Neither work on mobile, and neither work with vector maps, it seems? I haven't tried out GraphHopper's UI though.
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#114What language is it in? In Italy, most of the cities have the Italian name, some of them have an English name (Florence, Naples), some have a German name (Triest). The behaviour is different than OSM, at least for me.
- Triest is mapped with several names (https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/179180), ‘Trieste’ being the standard one.
- Naples is mapped with many names (https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/40767), ‘Napoli’ being the standard one.
- Florence (https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/42602) has ‘Firenze’ as standard name.
A renderer can choose which name to put as label on the map, usually it’s `name` or `name:locallanguage-abbreviated`.
Re: Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps
#115A few things that I notice in the area where I'm somewhat active as an OSM contributor: - You probably shouldn't render guideposts or route markers on the map, or at least not with generic "info" icon. - Things with access=private are likely not terribly relevant to people looking at the map. This will include things like parking spots or gardens. - Lots of shots and amenities have icons, but doctors don't. Neither d…
I'm using OSM Liberty [1] so as far as I know I should be just tracking upstream with most of these issues, but I think some of them might actually be introduced by planetiler [2]. Thanks for giving it such a detailed look though. [1] https://github.com/maputnik/osm-liberty [2] https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler/issues/324
Ah, [2] indeed looks like the same issue. I'll try to raise issues on osm-liberty for the other things. Not that they don't make sense to display in certain topic-specific maps, but for general-use maps I think there are some parts that should be decluttered.
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#116This is very interesting (and impressive work). I've been thinking for quite some time that it would be very useful to have a local map server for offline use.
A lot of applications need to show data related to location (e.g.: a photo app might want to show a map of where a photo was taken). Having a local service to resolve these would be superb.
I know this product has a different goal, but I wonder if the backend side of it could actually fill in this role. Essentially exposing location/mapping services to local applications.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you ever compared it to https://github.com/Overv/openstreetmap-tile-server ?
No. We no longer want to bother with monthly updates and the overhead of maintaining our own tile server over <30€/month. We tried to make our own raster tile server several years before vector tiles were a thing, using tilecache, then tilestache and just gave up because of the storage and hardware requirements. Plus there's a lot of work involved in customizing your maps - we didn't want to show the standard OSM map…
Makes sense, thanks for your explanation.