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Immediatelly getting downvoted. All I'm saying is that official map boundaries these days should be used.
Because I can again not post because too fast here my clarification: I mean official not commercial or proprietary
Cool but basemaps are a very tricky thing from a geographers perspective. There are several border conflicts. When it is open source there could be some manipulation. Immediatelly getting downvoted. All I'm saying is that official map boundaries these days should be used. Because I can again not post because too fast here my clarification: I mean official not commercial or proprietary
This is exceedingly useful for so many use cases.
E.g. internal tools that display locations of assets, system statuses, webpages that display store locations, and so forth.
Plenty of use cases where the costs for Googles APIs would exceed the dev costs for implementing something like this.
For a while I've wanted an SVG map with a JS API where you can input latitude and longitude and show the point on it. I hope this will do that! The reason I want that is, almost all humans have a GPS device in their pocket. You could easily get your approximate location from this, even without cell service. Implementation could be a PWA.
Not sure if op is affiliated, but I recommend increasing the font size of the street names as you zoom in. Look forward to using this in the future
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> Usually .com domains were used by commercial entities I must disagree. Even in the early days, even though that was the intended use of the .com TLD, it has always actually been used as the default TLD instead of the .net TLD. I really hate it, but whenever I see a .com I have never, and will never assume it has some sort of commercial angle.
The head-scratcher is more like: If it's a non-profit, they (and I) would have expected a .org, which, unlike .net, has been used consistently over the years. But I get your point in general.
Cool but basemaps are a very tricky thing from a geographers perspective. There are several border conflicts. When it is open source there could be some manipulation. Immediatelly getting downvoted. All I'm saying is that official map boundaries these days should be used. Because I can again not post because too fast here my clarification: I mean official not commercial or proprietary
Usually .com domains were used by commercial entities, and protomaps.com seems like it might have cost some money. I don't fully understand LLC except that they protect owners from company liability. Just trying to figure out what the goal for this company is.
A 100% independent software project
Protomaps is a self-funded, solo developer project with a mission to make interactive cartography accessible to hobbyists and organizations of all sizes. An essential part of that mission is publishing open source software under commercial-friendly licenses.
You can support my full-time work on Protomaps in a few ways: * Downloading the open source world basemap tileset with a support plan on GitHub Sponsors. * Paid development of open source features.
I lurk in an online community of journalist coders and some folks there are excited about PMTiles as cost-saving way to host your own custom-styled map tiles. See, for instance, "How The Post is replacing Mapbox with open source solutions" https://www.kschaul.com/post/2023/02/16/how-the-post-is-repl...
Sounds like a neat community. Can you share where it is?