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Re:Switch to OpenStreetMap by davidy123 on Thursday December 12, 2019 @09:12AM (#21771961)
It's not very difficult to install Ubuntu in a VM or spin up a cloud based instance. The bigger problem is their packages work on at latest Ubuntu 14.04, which is unsupported since April and I'd guess there will be a lot of incidental bitrot that may make getting it running unpleasant.

But none of this matters, looks like there are several Docker based tile servers, which are a relative breeze to set up on any operating system.

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Re:Switch to OpenStreetMap by JustSomeNobody on Thursday December 12, 2019 @09:47AM (#21772208)
> It's not very difficult to install Ubuntu in a VM or spin up a cloud based instance.

I don’t think that is the point OP was making. If you’re even remotely thinking about running a tile server, you’d be able to spin up a VM of Ubuntu.

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