Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting

openfreemap.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

1–10 of 243 posts

Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting

#1

Post by hyperknot »

Hi HN,

After 9 years of running my own OpenStreetMap tile server infra for MapHub (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11389989), I've open-sourced it and launched OpenFreeMap.

You can either self-host or use our public instance. Everything is open-source, including the full production setup — there’s no 'open-core' model here. Check out the repo (https://github.com/hyperknot/openfreemap). The map data comes from OpenStreetMap.

I also provide weekly full planet downloads both in Btrfs and MBTiles formats.

I aim to cover the running costs of the public instance through donations.

Looking forwards for your feedback.

Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting
openfreemap.org

Re: Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting

#2

Post by noahjk »

This is neat! After the huge price increase a couple years ago with GMaps, it looks like you’ve come up with a creative way to offer much of the same functionality for most users. It’s unfortunate to still see small business sites to this day with error messages on their map widgets because of the API change from Google.

I know nothing about mapping, but I’ve always had a dream of making a private neighborhood map which labels each house with people, sort of like a visual Rolodex. It would be great to have property boundaries, too. Do you have any suggestions for places to start? I don’t even know what file formats would hold this sort of data.

Re: Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting

#8

Post by hyperknot »

jack_riminton wrote: post #3

I'm relatively new to mapping, can you explain the difference between running Leaflet and a free map tiling provider compared to your product?

As far as I know, there are no "Free Map Tiling provider"-s. This project aims to be exactly one. You can use it with Leaflet using the https://github.com/maplibre/maplibre-gl-leaflet plugin.

Re: Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting

#9

Post by sphars »

Always on the lookout for self-hosted map servers, so I'll definitely try this one out.

Slightly off-topic, one thing I'm having a hard time finding is satellite imagery. I need to self-host an offline web application using CesiumJS, and while I can spin up a map server, I can't find satellite imagery for free or cheap. I've used MapTiler[0], their server works great and they offer low-res satellite imagery for free/testing, but their high-res images are out of my price range.

Anyone know of resources for downloading offline images of satellite imagery, compatible with OpenFreeMap or other server for use with CesiumJS? Doesn't have to be super recent images but would be nice.

[0]: https://www.maptiler.com/

Re: Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting

#10

Post by hyperknot »

Coolbeanstoo wrote: post #4

Seems like the full world download links dont work, 404: https://btrfs.openfreemap.com/

CloudFlare buckets don't support indexing / directory listing, so you need to get the exact URL. To help with this, here is a file listing the content of the bucket: https://btrfs.openfreemap.com/files.txt
Post reply on HN