I made a website for lonely people, and got >100 people to log their locations

Re:I made a website for lonely people, and got >100 people t... by DoesntMatter22 on Monday January 30, 2023 @10:59PM (#34590807)

Curious what you used for maps. I always want to build stuff with maps but the costs can be really high

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Re:I made a website for lonely people, and got >100 people t... by mythrwy on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @12:16AM (#34591468)

Mapbox GL is pretty reasonable, or even free under 50K loads.

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Re:I made a website for lonely people, and got >100 people t... by bubblic on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @01:37AM (#34591984)

I used Deck.gl and CARTO basemaps. https://deck.gl/docs/api-reference/carto/basemap

You don't need a token to use this map, as long as you keep the usage to a reasonable limit (I think it says 1,000,000 tiles per month)

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Re:I made a website for lonely people, and got >100 people t... by caspg on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:15AM (#34593016)

You can always start with tiles from https://openstreetmap.org Or use one of the commercial providers which offers free tiers. There are quite a few smaller providers that are not super expensive.

You can always setup your own tile server. It's not that hard and can be cheap (if you don't count your time). I recommend, checking https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler

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