Just want to say thank you for making this project. I think there's a good chance I will use it for a (very low bandwidth) personal project.
Thank you very much, and also thank you for your donation!
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#52Seems like a great service! We could definitely consider this as an viable option for our startup's application. I am not an expert regarding the OSM data and maps in general, but how customizable is your library, can I somehow relatively easy add housenumbers of the addresses from OSM data on the buildings in the map?
This is totally customizable and the house numbers are already present in the original data, it's just not displayed in the default styles. You can customize the style by using the Maputnik editor, house numbers are visible in the "Inspector" view.
https://maputnik.github.io/editor?style=https://tiles.openfr...
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#53Just want to say thank you for making this project. I think there's a good chance I will use it for a (very low bandwidth) personal project.
Thank you very much, and also thank you for your donation!
I'll be using this this Sunday for a project for a g0v civic hackathon. You solved a problem we had been discussing today. We were going to use protomaps instead https://protomaps.com/
The pitch for the project is here if anyone in Taiwan is interested in joining: https://hackmd.io/7K4kLkseTYCPI7DWoNv5mA?view
Hackathon info: https://g0v-jothon.kktix.cc/events/g0v-hackath63n
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#54I know the github says docker free.... What would it take to dockerize so people can self host, say on kubernetes.
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#55I understand you don't plan to make money, only to cover costs. Nevertheless, I believe you would benefit from a more explicit "business plan". Your Gold support plan kind of fulfills that purpose (email support and an invoice), but right now it's kind of hidden in the middle of a donation request, and flavored as a donation. You might convince a lot more mba-type people to support you if you also extend the same off…
Do you think it'd be more clear to only accept donations on GitHub Sponsors and only offer actual support plans on the website? I mean actual email support, helping companies migrate their existing map stack to OpenFreeMap.
100% keep sponsorship separate from paid support.
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#56Hard links are to deduplicate identical tiles, right? How much does that save and how close is the tile with most links (empty one(s)?) to the filesystem limits? Inquiring minds want to know...
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#57I know the github says docker free.... What would it take to dockerize so people can self host, say on kubernetes.
Someone making a Docker image from this. Instead of using Fabric's commands like c.sudo('git clone ...') it'd use the RUN commands.
I think it would be quite a straightforward task to transform it into a Docker file. I'd be happy to link to it on GitHub.
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#58I really like the idea. Why OMT instead of protomaps? The latter is clearly where the community is moving towards (albeit very slowly). I'm somewhat sceptical about the "free with no API keys" idea. I guess your service is not guaranteed to be up so no one too big will rely on it. But what if you start getting abuse or someone using them on some humongous site (e.g. one of those cheap restaurant email builders that a…
So Protomaps is a really full stack map platform, they are competing with kind of like 3-4 projects at once: - There is the Protomaps schema. It's competing with OpenMapTiles and Shortbread ( https://shortbread-tiles.org/ ) - There is the Protomaps file format. It's competing with MBTiles and say Btrfs images in OpenFreeMap. - There is the Protomaps styles. It's competing with OSM Liberty and OSM Bright styles ( http…
I did 150TB+ on a 40 Euro Hetzner server for years without any issue and also did the same amount in a similar price range on multiple different providers. The cloud and CDNs charge a huge markup.
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#59I miss some libre client for Google's Street View. On 3D maps, adapting Marble for OSGEarth should be a piece of cake.
If not, declaring one with IMGui+layers can be done in a week from any experienced C++ programmer. The included demos for OSGEarth already depict a minimal client with impressive 3D maps for a nearly non-supported demo.
I think KDE/Plasma lost a great oportunity there by not adopting OSGEarth.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bunny is also $10-$60/TB/month. I believe Hetzner should not have any problem with using 100 mbps out of the 1 Gbps on their servers. That's 30 TB/month for free, per server. It'd be $300-$1800 per month on Bunny.
For this use case i would use the bunny volume tier which is $5/TB
That's still an order of magnitude more than what you can get with rented servers. I pay between 0.2 and 0.4 per TB doing nearly 2000TB a month.