Re:Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps
by shafyy on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @09:20AM
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Have you ever compared it to https://github.com/Overv/openstreetmap-tile-server ?
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Re:Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps
by petre on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @10:40AM
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No. We no longer want to bother with monthly updates and the overhead of maintaining our own tile server over <30€/month. We tried to make our own raster tile server several years before vector tiles were a thing, using tilecache, then tilestache and just gave up because of the storage and hardware requirements. Plus there's a lot of work involved in customizing your maps - we didn't want to show the standard OSM map built for mappers in mind but a transport oriented map for fleet tracking. MapTiler has almost everything we want except good Africa coverage.