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I have a Certificate in GIS and I know a little HTML and CSS and yadda, but I don't really write any programming languages. So I don't have a good sense of wher

I have a Certificate in GIS and I know a little HTML and CSS and yadda, but I don't really write any programming languages. So I don't have a good sense of where they are drawing the line here for things that fit or don't fit this list. Their section on Data Visualization on Maps lacks a link to Stamen Design free tiles, available under a creative commons license. I'm wondering if people here think it's worth submitting a pull request or if that sounds like it is outside of the scope of what they are trying to curate for some reason. https://free-for.dev/#/?id=data-visualization-on-maps https://free-for.dev/#/?id=data-visualization-on-maps https://www.reddit.com/r/CitizenPlanners/comments/ezklaq/stamen_maps_free_to_use_under_creative_commons/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CitizenPlanners/comments/ezklaq/sta...

lucideer 6y ago
Stamen could definitely be added as a free tile host (as should OSM themselves), but I would specify that it's the hosting service that's being offered freely, not just the tiles themselves. While the tiles are free (CC) I would say a list of freely licenced downloadable resources/assets for devs would be much bigger/broader in scope.
- DoreenMichele 6y ago
  Thanks. I've tried to do a little reading up on Saas, Paas and Iaas and tried to understand this a bit better. I'll try to do a pull request in the next day or two. For me, Stamen Maps have been a big deal for stuff I do. It took me forever to find something of this caliber that's suitable for my aims, but I'm just doing maps for various projects and not some kind of GIS thing.
  - lucideer 6y ago
    > I've tried to do a little reading up on Saas, Paas and Iaas and tried to understand this a bit better To distill this down for the purpose of this specific topic (map tiles): - the map tiles being provided under CC is a copyright / right-of-use / legal intellectual property thing. Nothing to do with any provision of material service by Stamen What Stamen provide that's relevant here is a service, that's somewhere vaguely in between SaaS and PaaS. - SaaS would be if Stamen provided some kind of maps website, with accounts, etc. for working with data & displaying maps. They don't really do that fully. - PaaS is a bit closer to what Stamen do: they run a server and host their own map tiles. You can point your website at their server, and they pay the hosting cost of the traffic you send there. (PaaS as a buzzword technically involves a bit more than this, but this would be a subset of it). - IaaS is an unrelated thing here: this would be like if they offered servers for you to go and host your own map tiles on, along with a load of tools for managing those servers. TL;DR: The CC-licencing of tiles is about releasing "artwork"/IP? (is there a better term for map styles??) that they've already created. Tile-hosting is about paying for internet traffic of the browsers hitting the server where those tiles live.
    - DoreenMichele 6y ago
      Thank you.

lucideer 6y ago

Stamen could definitely be added as a free tile host (as should OSM themselves), but I would specify that it's the hosting service that's being offered freely, not just the tiles themselves. While the tiles are free (CC) I would say a list of freely licenced downloadable resources/assets for devs would be much bigger/broader in scope.

DoreenMichele 6y ago
Thanks. I've tried to do a little reading up on Saas, Paas and Iaas and tried to understand this a bit better. I'll try to do a pull request in the next day or two. For me, Stamen Maps have been a big deal for stuff I do. It took me forever to find something of this caliber that's suitable for my aims, but I'm just doing maps for various projects and not some kind of GIS thing.
- lucideer 6y ago
  > I've tried to do a little reading up on Saas, Paas and Iaas and tried to understand this a bit better To distill this down for the purpose of this specific topic (map tiles): - the map tiles being provided under CC is a copyright / right-of-use / legal intellectual property thing. Nothing to do with any provision of material service by Stamen What Stamen provide that's relevant here is a service, that's somewhere vaguely in between SaaS and PaaS. - SaaS would be if Stamen provided some kind of maps website, with accounts, etc. for working with data & displaying maps. They don't really do that fully. - PaaS is a bit closer to what Stamen do: they run a server and host their own map tiles. You can point your website at their server, and they pay the hosting cost of the traffic you send there. (PaaS as a buzzword technically involves a bit more than this, but this would be a subset of it). - IaaS is an unrelated thing here: this would be like if they offered servers for you to go and host your own map tiles on, along with a load of tools for managing those servers. TL;DR: The CC-licencing of tiles is about releasing "artwork"/IP? (is there a better term for map styles??) that they've already created. Tile-hosting is about paying for internet traffic of the browsers hitting the server where those tiles live.
  - DoreenMichele 6y ago
    Thank you.