Re:OpenLayers
by kylebarron on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @05:17PM
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Docs for building the tiles yourself are here [0,1]. It's worked really well for me so far. If you want a visual example of self hosted tiles, you can check out my (in progress) website [2]. The tiles are all hosted statically in S3 with cloudflare as a proxy, so it was pretty cheap.
[0]: https://github.com/openmaptiles/openmaptiles/blob/master/REA... [1]: https://github.com/openmaptiles/openmaptiles/blob/master/QUI... [2]: https://nst.guide
The point is to generate your own; the purchasing option is if you don't want to generate your own, but want something done for you and packaged.
See here: https://openmaptiles.org/docs/generate/generate-openmaptiles...
Re:OpenLayers
by atombender on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @05:25PM
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Thanks, I will look into that. It's not altogether clear from their site — their Docker image basically implies that you're supposed to use their pre-existing datasets, which aren't free.
You can find free OSM PBF data sets. eg. https://download.geofabrik.de/north-america/us/california.ht...
If you select "commercial product or company web", you're asked to pay for it: https://i.imgur.com/TrAmju4.jpg
If you select any of the non-commercial ones, the newest map data you get is from 2017 (!).
I'm not against paying, but it's not free!