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These map tiles are based on OpenMapTiles [1], which has a non-commercial side with less-frequent exports of OSM, and a commercial side with frequent updates [2
by MattBlissett 8y ago
These map tiles are based on OpenMapTiles [1], which has a non-commercial side with less-frequent exports of OSM, and a commercial side with frequent updates [2]. The exports can be downloaded as MBTiles (SQLite) databases of vector tiles.
If you're just using tiles, I don't see any difference with Stadia Maps — perhaps price, I don't use OpenMapTiles' commercial services.
Stadia do offer routing using Valhalla, which OpenMapTiles don't offer.
(I have made some small contributions to the open source OpenMapTiles project [result at [3], vector/raster tiles in other projections], but have no connection to the company.)
[1] https://openmaptiles.org/ https://openmaptiles.org/ and [2] https://openmaptiles.com/ https://openmaptiles.com/
[3] https://tile.gbif.org/ https://tile.gbif.org/
- stadiamaps 8y agoCorrect. We have also contributed to OpenMapTiles, and if you are interested in self-hosting and/or are very cost sensitive, we'd highly recommend checking them out (they also have very affordable hosting if you're just looking for the tiles). We're also trying to offer value in other areas such as the design, and in additional services. Routing is obviously one of these, and we've got a few more services that that we're working on. We'll be announcing some of these later this year.