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

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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 wh…

this might be helpful?: https://github.com/martynafford/natural-earth-geojson/blob/m...

public domain map data in GeoJSON format.

also, for google maps I know you can respond to interactions with the supplied points of interest like buildings, including homes, and from that point you can obtain an address via reverse geocoding or some other technique. I expect other mapping tools may have similar abilities but I don't have any experience with anything other than Google.

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Thanks for this free service Zsolt. I hope it's not abused (too much traffic) and that donations from real users fund this very good initiative ;-)

On a related subject, I remember seeing MapHub sometime ago and I have it in my bookmarks for one of my (forgotten?) projects. Whenever I find some free time I need to sit down and try the free tier to see if it will do what I have in mind.

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Would be interested in seeing a cost bar vs donations bar on the website.

Currently I'm paying for 3 dedicated servers at Hetzner and getting total donations of $11 USD per month.

Making this automatic might not be easy, but I might do it one day, it might help with the donations.

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FYI if you need a CDN you can get bulk pricing from fastly with a monthly commitment.

I'm not sure if their hosting works for you because you might be serving byte ranges. I think we're paying 2k/month usd for like 300TB/month. Backblaze-to-fastly is free, so no egress.

Love your project, more power to you. I'll be using this for a few side projects for sure.

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Thanks for this free service Zsolt. I hope it's not abused (too much traffic) and that donations from real users fund this very good initiative ;-) On a related subject, I remember seeing MapHub sometime ago and I have it in my bookmarks for one of my (forgotten?) projects. Whenever I find some free time I need to sit down and try the free tier to see if it will do what I have in mind.

Thanks a lot for your words! I'm also curious whether the donations will be able to cover the bandwidth costs. Currently I'm paying for 3 dedicated servers at Hetzner and getting a total of $11 per month from donations.

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post #15

FYI if you need a CDN you can get bulk pricing from fastly with a monthly commitment. I'm not sure if their hosting works for you because you might be serving byte ranges. I think we're paying 2k/month usd for like 300TB/month. Backblaze-to-fastly is free, so no egress. Love your project, more power to you. I'll be using this for a few side projects for sure.

At Hetzner, the bandwidth is unlimited in theory. In practice, there are stories of terminating accounts of those who used too much.

I don't think this project will ever make $2k per month. TBH, I'd be happy it it ever reaches $200 per month. I have to be very careful about what hosting providers to use and CDNs are out of the question.

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post #15

FYI if you need a CDN you can get bulk pricing from fastly with a monthly commitment. I'm not sure if their hosting works for you because you might be serving byte ranges. I think we're paying 2k/month usd for like 300TB/month. Backblaze-to-fastly is free, so no egress. Love your project, more power to you. I'll be using this for a few side projects for sure.

I wonder if other CDNs can help.

In addition to Cloudflare, bunny was on the radar too.

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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/…

Satellite images are definitely expensive, they are by far the biggest cost for MapHub. I spend more on satellite images per month than on servers. I couldn't find a high quality satellite images from free sources.
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