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Post by iudqnolq »

maelito wrote: post #88

Related : I'm building https://github.com/laem/cartes , an alternative to Google Maps. On top of a custom protomaps tileset and a few other MapTiler options (such as satellite and hiking), it packs a search engine, a basic OSM place UI, transit calculators (walk, bike with profiles, transit, car), small features like ruler and favorites, transit maps, photos of places, place search by categories, and the French open…

I see you're sourcing images from Wikimedia. Have you found any other good sources? I'm working on indexing images by place taken for my own project and am primarily very slowly and jankily enumerating the flickr API. (You can see https://plantopo.com/geophotos for a pre-alpha view of where I have coverage. Zoom in where there are blue dots and click the map to search. Don't click Oregon or Washington because of a bug I'm working on)

Are you using opentripplanner for routing?

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Post by wcedmisten »

bdon wrote: post #78
hyperknot wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

PMTiles could come up with a version in the future where instead of one 90 GB file, they have 9 thousand 10 MB files. That would work well I believe.

The latency for small files and ranges of large files is pretty similar on most storage platforms, but there are some exceptions like Cloudflare R2. The main reason PMTiles is one file and not two or more files is that it enables atomic updates in-place (which every mature storage platform supports) as well as ETag content change detection in downstream caches. All of the server and serverless implementations at http…

Now I'm curious, what causes the latency for range requests with R2?

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

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Post by tony_cannistra »

noahjk wrote: post #2

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…

If you live in the US, you can get parcel information from your local tax assessor's website, usually. Sometimes it's devoid of owner information. Such cases usually require going to a company like ReGrid or Corelogic to purchase the data.

I work for a company (onXmaps) which produces user-friendly maps of such information. You could use our app to create such a "rolodex" of your neighborhood, by annotating individual parcels with your neighbors' information.

https://onxmaps.com

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

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Post by maelito »

zaik wrote: post #117
maelito wrote: post #88

Related : I'm building https://github.com/laem/cartes , an alternative to Google Maps. On top of a custom protomaps tileset and a few other MapTiler options (such as satellite and hiking), it packs a search engine, a basic OSM place UI, transit calculators (walk, bike with profiles, transit, car), small features like ruler and favorites, transit maps, photos of places, place search by categories, and the French open…

Wow this is one of the best Google Maps clones I've seen so far. Is there a plan to translate the UI into other languages than French? I would be willing to help out, if there is a Weblate interface or something similar.

Thanks ! I've raised this issue. Short : nothing yet.

https://github.com/laem/cartes/issues/574

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Post by wcedmisten »

sorenjan wrote: post #107

This is really cool, I'll definitely look at this if I need to embed a map in the future. Are there any libraries that lets you plot geographic data on top of this in Python, with Matplotlib or similar? Slightly off topic, but how come there doesn't seem to be any open projects using the Overture maps data? > Overture is a data-centric map project, not a community of individual map editors. Therefore, Overture is int…

Overture is an awesome resource because it has more coverage than OSM, but at the cost of accuracy. When I was considering using it for restaurants in surprisedatespot.com, I found that it has a lot more automated content with bad geocoding (imprecise locations) compared to OSM.

E.g. restaurants can come from an old Facebook page and the geocoding might not be accurate compared to a survey.

So where OSM might have a restaurant that closed 8 years ago, overture has every restaurant that's been at that location for the past 8 years.

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Post by richiebful1 »

sorenjan wrote: post #107

This is really cool, I'll definitely look at this if I need to embed a map in the future. Are there any libraries that lets you plot geographic data on top of this in Python, with Matplotlib or similar? Slightly off topic, but how come there doesn't seem to be any open projects using the Overture maps data? > Overture is a data-centric map project, not a community of individual map editors. Therefore, Overture is int…

Folium is a useful library for plotting geographic data in Python. It generates a webpage with the map data displayed with Leaflet.js

https://python-visualization.github.io/folium/latest/ https://leafletjs.com/

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

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Post by btbuildem »

Very cool, love the various tile sets (especially the 3d layer!)

One thing that tripped me up is the zoom -- the affordance for zoom in/out across most other mapping UIs is via mouse motions -- how come in your demo it's restricted to the +/- buttons? Perhaps I missed something...

Thanks for sharing this, looks very neat.

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Post by patrickaljord »

RagnarD wrote: post #125

If it does a good job, somebody should get paid for it. I wouldn't rely on using this if it depends on donations (I call this begware). People expect to pay for services and products.

it says you can host it yourself and that he may offer a paid hosted plan in the future
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