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There isn't a catch. If you only want to serve map tiles, this is the cheapest way to do it. If you want fancy features like being able to use a UI to make cus

There isn't a catch. If you only want to serve map tiles, this is the cheapest way to do it. If you want fancy features like being able to use a UI to make custom map styles, vehicle routing and satellite overlay, then MapBox and Google are still your friend.

moneywoes 4y ago
What if I want to add custom data to the map like say a police crime filter on the top. Can I still use this? Or do I need felt Very knew to make sorry
- winbat 4y ago
  If you have any geospatial data, you can tile it with tippecanoe [0], which gives you an mbtiles file. Protomaps lets you easily convert the mbtiles file into a protomaps file which you can then use. Protomaps doesn’t limit you to any particular type of tiles, it’s just a format which allows you to read tiles out of a single file with HTTP range requests. [0] https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe
  - bdon 4y ago
    Hi, thanks for the mention! The Mapbox repo has an older version of tippecanoe; there's a newer version actively being improved by Felt at http://github.com/felt/tippecanoe http://github.com/felt/tippecanoe , and they've also funded my addition of the Protomaps format (PMTiles) as a direct output. No conversion step required anymore!
bdon 4y ago
As the developer of this system, I concur with this; Protomaps is focused on map tiles, and can be used with other solutions such as http://geocode.earth http://geocode.earth for search. A small detail: I don't believe this is the absolute cheapest way to deliver map tiles. Renting an unmetered bandwidth server is always going to be the cheapest way to host content, but unmanaged servers don't give you SSL termination, infinite storage, or an edge cache. Protomaps is designed as the right compromise between self-hosted operational+development costs and SaaS-like delivery.
- teruakohatu 4y ago
  Thank you for your hard work on this.
singularity2001 4y ago
For vehicle routing you can add GraphHopper

moneywoes 4y ago

What if I want to add custom data to the map like say a police crime filter on the top. Can I still use this? Or do I need felt Very knew to make sorry

winbat 4y ago
If you have any geospatial data, you can tile it with tippecanoe [0], which gives you an mbtiles file. Protomaps lets you easily convert the mbtiles file into a protomaps file which you can then use. Protomaps doesn’t limit you to any particular type of tiles, it’s just a format which allows you to read tiles out of a single file with HTTP range requests. [0] https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe
- bdon 4y ago
  Hi, thanks for the mention! The Mapbox repo has an older version of tippecanoe; there's a newer version actively being improved by Felt at http://github.com/felt/tippecanoe http://github.com/felt/tippecanoe , and they've also funded my addition of the Protomaps format (PMTiles) as a direct output. No conversion step required anymore!

bdon 4y ago

As the developer of this system, I concur with this; Protomaps is focused on map tiles, and can be used with other solutions such as http://geocode.earth http://geocode.earth for search. A small detail: I don't believe this is the absolute cheapest way to deliver map tiles. Renting an unmetered bandwidth server is always going to be the cheapest way to host content, but unmanaged servers don't give you SSL termination, infinite storage, or an edge cache. Protomaps is designed as the right compromise between self-hosted operational+development costs and SaaS-like delivery.

teruakohatu 4y ago
Thank you for your hard work on this.

singularity2001 4y ago

For vehicle routing you can add GraphHopper