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I always enjoy anything that can help me avoid using external services such as Google Maps. I'm not one who hates these services, I think they are great. But wh

I always enjoy anything that can help me avoid using external services such as Google Maps. I'm not one who hates these services, I think they are great. But what if they get taken down? All the maps I have out there on sites are now down. It's a lot more reassuring when I can make my own.

dagw 15y ago
That's one reason I like using something like Openlayers for all my web mapping needs. This way I can use Google Maps for as long as it's practical, but if something changes I can change map provider to, for example, Bing or something OSM based by changing only a couple of lines of code.
lbotos 15y ago
That's the beauty of TileMill. They offer the Mapbox.com service but you aren't tied to their platform. You can use something like http://tilestache.org/ http://tilestache.org/ to serve titles made in TileMill. I'm excited to see this update as I'm using TileMill for a project with a big dataset and I hope this will speed it up. Kudos TileMill team! :)
- tmcw 15y ago
  In fact, there are quite a few other implementations, for various python/node/whathaveyou enthusiasts: https://github.com/mapbox/mbtiles-spec/wiki/Implementations https://github.com/mapbox/mbtiles-spec/wiki/Implementations (of course, it'd be nice if people hosted on MapBox, as it's the main driver of TileMill development :)
  - lbotos 15y ago
    Do you guys have a donation link somewhere? I'm using TileMill for a small project and The smallest Mapbox hosting is way overkill. I wouldn't mind donating some money as it's an awesome product and TileMill is wonderful! Edit: The initial dataset is huge but the implemented map is only a small subset.