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Self-hosting has improved but is still non-trivial. MapTiler and Mapbox are expensive.

• vetinari 6y ago
  You can use openmaptiles to create the vector tiles (it is made by the Maptiler guys) and serve the tiles with tileserver-gl (or tileserver-gl-light, if you don't need raster tiles).
  • lucideer 6y ago
    Yes. The maintenance of which is non-trivial. The fork has maintained their own tiles, so I don't think there's any question of not knowing how to. It's just been inconsistently maintained over time.
    • vetinari 6y ago
      With openmaptiles, they had a hiccup when Mapbox sent C&D, because they used the same mvt scheme as Mapbox (thus they were able to use the same themes). Once they switched to their own scheme, I didn't notice any problems with maintenance. With tileserver, it is more interesting. The full one (capable of generating raster tiles on demand) still needs ancient node.js (v10, soon to be eol), which can be a problem. The light one runs OK on the current stack.
• petre 6y ago
  We pay something like 35$ per month for four servers and the cheapest plan. That's peanuts compared to the infra we'd have to maintain ourselves and work we'd have to do to build the tiles or money to spend on a yearly tile subscription.