Private Maps for iOS – Minimalist OpenStreetMap

Re:Private Maps for iOS – Minimalist OpenStreetMap by eofster on Monday October 23, 2023 @07:47AM (#37984338)

Hey, I've created a maps app for iOS that I always wanted to have: private, minimalist, easy on the battery, and in standard OpenStreetMap style.

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Re:Private Maps for iOS – Minimalist OpenStreetMap by fsflover on Monday October 23, 2023 @08:22AM (#37984646)

You should put "Show HN:" to the title, if it's your creation.

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Re:Private Maps for iOS – Minimalist OpenStreetMap by eofster on Monday October 23, 2023 @09:11AM (#37985115)

Oh, thanks for the heads-up, updated the title.

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Re:Private Maps for iOS – Minimalist OpenStreetMap by habi on Monday October 23, 2023 @11:25AM (#37987035)

Are you rendering your own tiles?

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Re:Private Maps for iOS – Minimalist OpenStreetMap by eofster on Monday October 23, 2023 @02:00PM (#37989239)

I am. The high-resolution ones.

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Re:Private Maps for iOS – Minimalist OpenStreetMap by habi on Monday October 23, 2023 @03:02PM (#37990098)

And the low-res ones? Are you just loading them from `https://tile.openstreetmap.org/${z}/${x}/${y}.png`?

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Re:Private Maps for iOS – Minimalist OpenStreetMap by eofster on Monday October 23, 2023 @03:12PM (#37990212)

The app doesn't use the low-resolution tiles. The app only works on the high-resolution displays.

I don't load tiles from the severs other than the own ones. Not only am I aware of the OpenStreetMap's rules about it. It is also an important part of the privacy guarantee. No third party gets information about the loaded map tiles. This information is not stored, not collected, and not shared with anybody.

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Re:Private Maps for iOS – Minimalist OpenStreetMap by habi on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @01:13AM (#38009373)

I meant the (free) low-zoom vs. (paid) high-zoom tiles.

Can you tell us a bit about your rendering pipeline?

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Re:Private Maps for iOS – Minimalist OpenStreetMap by eofster on Thursday October 26, 2023 @01:49PM (#38029159)

Absolutely! What exactly do you want to know? The rendering pipeline is the most standard one: Mapnik, Postgres, openstreetmap-carto, renderd. Everything is hosted on the own servers.

By resolution I mean exactly this - resolution. High-resolution tiles, also known as retina tiles. Low-resolution tiles are not used at all. All of that is not related to zoom.

If this wasn't clearly communicated by me: all zoom levels are rendered by the own servers.

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