Protomaps – A free and open source map of the world

Post by Aeolun » Mon, Oct 23, 2023, 11:33 PM UTC

ulrischa wrote: post #21

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

Post by squeaky-clean » Tue, Oct 24, 2023, 1:02 AM UTC

Aachen wrote: post #102

tppiotrowski wrote: post #97

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Cloudflare: 100GB hosting is $1 and $.36 for 10 million requests. If you read the Protomaps docs it explains how to cache the requests on Cloudflare CDN so you only have to pay for each tile request once per cache period. It's quite cheap. Edit: previous submission title for Protomaps: Serverless maps at 1/700 the cost of Google Maps API

Okay but the question was what it actually costs, not what our favorite mitm provider offers as a commercial service (they have the worldwide hardware and sufficiently deep pockets to offer this at a rate that guarantees gaining market share, below the cost price of normal hosting providers)

Post by ummonk » Tue, Oct 24, 2023, 1:14 AM UTC

wolverine876 wrote: post #114

lmeyerov wrote: post #87

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Most of these piggyback on the OSM for the data tier, which $T companies work on. Afaict the discussion is more about compute on top - tile generation, interactive renderers, ... .

$T companies aren't a source of truth. Much of journalism is reporting on their errors, including the intentional, reckless, and lazy kinds.

Post by anacrolix » Tue, Oct 24, 2023, 2:11 AM UTC

nextaccountic wrote: post #104

ElectricalUnion wrote: post #101

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I assume that would require BitTorrent v2 (and I think more specifically something along BEP-46 - Updating Torrents Via DHT Mutable Items) or your map is gonna be out-of-sync and sad after a while.

are the torrents in the wild that uses this? and are there bittorrent clients that implement this? how do they surface the mutable aspect to the user? (is it like, your torrent client will silently update files, and if you dont want to update anymore you need to pause? can you still seed if you dont want to update?)

Post by acalcutt » Tue, Oct 24, 2023, 2:33 AM UTC

nextaccountic wrote: post #104

ElectricalUnion wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assume that would require BitTorrent v2 (and I think more specifically something along BEP-46 - Updating Torrents Via DHT Mutable Items) or your map is gonna be out-of-sync and sad after a while.

are the torrents in the wild that uses this? and are there bittorrent clients that implement this? how do they surface the mutable aspect to the user? (is it like, your torrent client will silently update files, and if you dont want to update anymore you need to pause? can you still seed if you dont want to update?)