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What does naturalearth have that OSM doesn't? I checked the site and it's showing what looks like a subset of OSM
Natural Earth is generalized (low zoom) data and has hand-curated scaleranks on features to determine what features appear at low zooms. None of that is in OSM.
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It depends what you use it for. I plan to use it for blog posts where I show the track of where I walked. I actually like that the map won't update. It wouldn't make sense to show me walking across a map of the future, would it? It's a record of the past and the map should be frozen just like the writing.
Sure, but in GP's context of local businesses, they certainly will want to keep up-to-date with any changes to make sure customers can still find them.
If anyone else was curious, their sample OSM derived PMTile file (protomaps-basemap-opensource-20230408.pmtiles) is 103GB. https://docs.protomaps.com/basemaps/downloads
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
Little blog post here: https://schof.co/moving-over-street-art-cities-to-pmtiles-an...
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
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I'm a student trying to upskill in geospatial/compsci. What kinds of projects could you make with all of this? Any good starting points you'd recommend?
Not OP, but almost anything where "a map" is the output will be a hugely big learning opportunity for you. Static maps, print-quality maps, interactive web maps -- the experience of building any of those will bring lots of learning. (That's how I got started.)
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I'm a student trying to upskill in geospatial/compsci. What kinds of projects could you make with all of this? Any good starting points you'd recommend?
you can checkout https://github.com/maplibre/awesome-maplibre#users for some examples of what you can do with Maplibre