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You can style the tiles or use your own. Where did you find the $1000 quote? I know you can have them hosted unlimited for $245/month but I was fairly sure it

You can style the tiles or use your own. Where did you find the $1000 quote? I know you can have them hosted unlimited for $245/month but I was fairly sure it was free for self-hosted use.

atombender 7y ago
It's a little unclear to me. But from what I can gather, the basic software can download data from OSM, but if you want hillshading or satellite, you have to get that separately, and it's part of the $1,000 "production package" [1], which is actually $2,048 for businesses, plus $1,024/year for updates. [1] https://openmaptiles.com/production-package/ https://openmaptiles.com/production-package/
- kylebarron 7y ago
  I have a couple open source repos for generating hillshade and contours (raster and vector, respectively) that I use with my self hosted tiles at nst.guide. The data sources I'm using are US only, though SRTM is a common choice for international Digital Elevation Models. [0]: https://github.com/nst-guide/hillshade https://github.com/nst-guide/hillshade [1]: https://github.com/nst-guide/contours https://github.com/nst-guide/contours
  - atombender 7y ago
    Awesome, thanks!
atombender 7y ago
Update: So if you run the server locally and select maps, you're presented with this screen, saying you need a key from openmaptiles.com: https://i.imgur.com/NTb5zIL.jpg https://i.imgur.com/NTb5zIL.jpg. If you select "commercial product or company web", you're asked to pay for it: https://i.imgur.com/TrAmju4.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TrAmju4.jpg If you select any of the non-commercial ones, the newest map data you get is from 2017 (!). I'm not against paying, but it's not free!
- vetinari 7y ago
  The point is to generate your own; the purchasing option is if you don't want to generate your own, but want something done for you and packaged. See here: https://openmaptiles.org/docs/generate/generate-openmaptiles/ https://openmaptiles.org/docs/generate/generate-openmaptiles...
  - atombender 7y ago
    Thanks, I will look into that. It's not altogether clear from their site — their Docker image basically implies that you're supposed to use their pre-existing datasets, which aren't free.
    - mycall 7y ago
      You can find free OSM PBF data sets. eg. https://download.geofabrik.de/north-america/us/california.html https://download.geofabrik.de/north-america/us/california.ht...
- kylebarron 7y ago
  Docs for building the tiles yourself are here [0,1]. It's worked really well for me so far. If you want a visual example of self hosted tiles, you can check out my (in progress) website [2]. The tiles are all hosted statically in S3 with cloudflare as a proxy, so it was pretty cheap. [0]: https://github.com/openmaptiles/openmaptiles/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/openmaptiles/openmaptiles/blob/master/REA... [1]: https://github.com/openmaptiles/openmaptiles/blob/master/QUICKSTART.md https://github.com/openmaptiles/openmaptiles/blob/master/QUI... [2]: https://nst.guide https://nst.guide
atombender 7y ago
Forgot to answer about styling. Yes, looks like custom styles with the production package (which has hillshading, which ends up making the maps look much nicer) is much better. For some reason their main demos don't show off their best map styles.

You can style the tiles or use your own. Where did you find the $1000 quote? I know you can have them hosted unlimited for $245/month but I was fairly sure it was free for self-hosted use.

atombender 7y ago

It's a little unclear to me. But from what I can gather, the basic software can download data from OSM, but if you want hillshading or satellite, you have to get that separately, and it's part of the $1,000 "production package" [1], which is actually $2,048 for businesses, plus $1,024/year for updates. [1] https://openmaptiles.com/production-package/ https://openmaptiles.com/production-package/

kylebarron 7y ago
I have a couple open source repos for generating hillshade and contours (raster and vector, respectively) that I use with my self hosted tiles at nst.guide. The data sources I'm using are US only, though SRTM is a common choice for international Digital Elevation Models. [0]: https://github.com/nst-guide/hillshade https://github.com/nst-guide/hillshade [1]: https://github.com/nst-guide/contours https://github.com/nst-guide/contours
- atombender 7y ago
  Awesome, thanks!

atombender 7y ago

Update: So if you run the server locally and select maps, you're presented with this screen, saying you need a key from openmaptiles.com: https://i.imgur.com/NTb5zIL.jpg https://i.imgur.com/NTb5zIL.jpg. If you select "commercial product or company web", you're asked to pay for it: https://i.imgur.com/TrAmju4.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TrAmju4.jpg If you select any of the non-commercial ones, the newest map data you get is from 2017 (!). I'm not against paying, but it's not free!

vetinari 7y ago
The point is to generate your own; the purchasing option is if you don't want to generate your own, but want something done for you and packaged. See here: https://openmaptiles.org/docs/generate/generate-openmaptiles/ https://openmaptiles.org/docs/generate/generate-openmaptiles...
- atombender 7y ago
  Thanks, I will look into that. It's not altogether clear from their site — their Docker image basically implies that you're supposed to use their pre-existing datasets, which aren't free.
  - mycall 7y ago
    You can find free OSM PBF data sets. eg. https://download.geofabrik.de/north-america/us/california.html https://download.geofabrik.de/north-america/us/california.ht...
kylebarron 7y ago
Docs for building the tiles yourself are here [0,1]. It's worked really well for me so far. If you want a visual example of self hosted tiles, you can check out my (in progress) website [2]. The tiles are all hosted statically in S3 with cloudflare as a proxy, so it was pretty cheap. [0]: https://github.com/openmaptiles/openmaptiles/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/openmaptiles/openmaptiles/blob/master/REA... [1]: https://github.com/openmaptiles/openmaptiles/blob/master/QUICKSTART.md https://github.com/openmaptiles/openmaptiles/blob/master/QUI... [2]: https://nst.guide https://nst.guide

atombender 7y ago

Forgot to answer about styling. Yes, looks like custom styles with the production package (which has hillshading, which ends up making the maps look much nicer) is much better. For some reason their main demos don't show off their best map styles.