Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap

Re:Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap by nyuriks on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:09PM (#33708082)

Just to set the record straight: MapTiler is *not* the maintainer of MapLibre. MapTiler is *one of* many participating companies in the MapLibre organization, which has a board and a charter [1].

Amazon has donated $300,000 to MapLibre, Facebook - $80,000, TomTom - $10,000, and lots more companies have donated. Most of the code maintenance is done by various volunteers and companies, e.g. Amazon has hired a whole team of engineers to work on MapLibre native, etc.

P.S. I came up with the name MapLibre, called people to unite around this effort, and am on the board of the MapLibre organization. [2]

[1]: https://maplibre.org/charter/ [2]: https://twitter.com/nyuriks/status/1336493514646052864

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Re:Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap by lagrange77 on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @07:17PM (#33713403)

I'm almost too afraid to ask, but is WebGL rendering really necessary for displaying an interactive 2D vector map as opposed to using SVG or Canvas?

Is it, because sth. like a full street network layer would degrade performance too quickly?

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Re:Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap by bdon on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @08:19PM (#33713862)

If you want to display infinite fractional zoom levels, WebGL is mandatory. That's what most consumers will expect from a high fidelity map application, because that's the way Google and Apple Maps work.

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Re:Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap by basicplus2 on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @09:15PM (#33714295)

High Fidelity.. Pity their road names don't zoom up to some degree.. it is so hard to read the road names, that as an old bugger i need a magnifying glass..

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Re:Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap by spiekerooger on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @10:41AM (#33720558)

Not vector but raster with leaflet: would https://www.osmap.uk/larger-text/ (as an example) help in reading road names?

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Re:Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap by lagrange77 on Thursday November 24, 2022 @04:48PM (#33736598)

Infinite fractional zoom levels, right thanks.

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Re:Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap by Aeolun on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @02:21AM (#33716185)

I think running stuff like that on the GPU is just more efficient than running it on anything else.

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