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1 year

new logo! because... Protomaps is moving from being "open-core", or partly proprietary, to an open source project. The only closed part has been the basemap planet.pmtiles generation; an open source implementation is WIP here! More updates soon!

GitHub - protomaps/basemaps: Basemap PMTiles generation and cartographic styles for OpenStreetMap...

Basemap PMTiles generation and cartographic styles for OpenStreetMap data and more - protomaps/basemaps

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New PMTiles demo! @maplibre + Raster DEM This page is powered by a single 30 gigabyte PMTiles v3 file on @cloudflare R2, which contains 350,000 Terrarium RGB-encoded terrain + bathymetry tiles - 10 zoom levels for the planet. dataset via Mapzen Joerd!

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2 years

Another sneak preview dataset... Vector OSM basemap, entire world zoom 0-10 * 1.4 million addressed tiles * 285,000 unique tile contents (80% redundancy!) All packaged up in a single 2.4 GB file and served directly from R2 to your browser! (Data ODbL)

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11 months

Now it's easy to stream GeoParquet into tippecanoe! gpq convert --to=geojson in.geoparquet | tippecanoe -o out.pmtiles Thanks @tschaub for adding stream output to ! (pictured: Cairo buildings visualization from @cloudnativegeo / @source_coop / @opencholmes )

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1 year

Experimenting with @stamen 's super slick Maperture cartography compare tool: here's a demo of PMTiles with a vector tileset read straight from Cloudflare R2 storage!

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10 months

Lens is a map of Canadian wildfire data created by @pathandfocus + @twostoryrobot Explore wildfires interactively by date and area - built with a static set of pmtiles archives @pwramsey might find it interesting!

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8 months

open sourced a small cost calculator: estimate the monthly bill of running @protomaps on AWS or Cloudflare based on usage, compared to Google Maps and hosted base map APIs. Now part of the Documentation site!

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7 months

The @protomaps transition from Open Core to Open Source, and introducing new product tiers available through GitHub Sponsors:

Transitioning Protomaps from Open Core to Open Source

The Protomaps Project has gained several new repositories in the past year, including the serverless implementations for AWS and Cloudflare, and a new basemaps repository, which generates a full...

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3 years

protomaps.js is a fully featured vector tile renderer and labeler that's a fraction of the size of alternatives. This means it works with PostGIS vector tiles! Added an example using @pwramsey 's pg_tileserv with Natural Earth data:

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1 year

Added documentation around using pmtiles with MapLibre GL JS + React and optionally the react-map-gl library. A powerful combination with a ~3 line hook! Full working example code sandbox at the docs:

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@protomaps

11 months

Protomaps was accepted into GitHub Sponsors earlier this year, and has quietly hit the first goal - 20 monthly sponsors! Thanks all! This has become the largest income stream for @protomaps this year. It's a lot of work to develop and maintain - a full time job at the minimum!

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2 years

Update on the state of the PMTiles ecosystem!

What's new in PMTiles V3

Updates on the PMTiles ecosystem

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11 months

Launch week! The @protomaps technical documentation has a new site, with a new tutorial, interactive maps, and client-side search: and it's now open source on GitHub!

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3 months

New blog post: If your map is: ✅on the web ✅more than a few megabytes ✅infrequently changes You should try PMTiles! If not, there's many alternatives, like @GeoParquet , @postgis , @supabase and the mighty GeoJSON

You Might Not Want PMTiles

PMTiles is the open archive format that underlies the Protomaps ecosystem. It’s a single file that enables deploying an entire world map as a static artifact, making mapping accessible to the widest...

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10 months

Nice shoutout for PMTiles in @opencholmes ’ keynote at #foss4gna ! Just as the project passes 1,000 GitHub stars:

GitHub - protomaps/PMTiles: Cloud-optimized + compressed single-file tile archives for vector and...

Cloud-optimized + compressed single-file tile archives for vector and raster maps - protomaps/PMTiles

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1 year

Working on first-class PMTiles support in @openlayers : try it out here via the new ol-pmtiles NPM package!

OpenLayers plugin · Issue #3 · protomaps/PMTiles

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1 year

UNDP GeoHub is a visualization tool by Joseph Thuha and @j_igarashi using a hybrid of dynamic (PostGIS) and static (PMTiles) vector tiling Thanks organizers for uploading all materials at !

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4 months

giant hydraulic press gruesomely crushing expensive databases, tileservers and 3rd party APIs all that's left is a 5.3 mm thin PMTiles file

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1 year

3 new PMTiles use cases in the wild by independent developers! 1/3 Amanda McCann's ( @amapanda @en .osm.town) osm-river-basins for visualizing and QAing the topology of all waterways in OpenStreetMap, built with tippecanoe:

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11 months

go-pmtiles 1.10: * new command `pmtiles verify`: check your archive is correct * supports extracting rectangular bounding boxes: `pmtiles extract in.pmtiles out.pmtiles --bbox=MIN_LON,MIN_LAT,MAX_LON,MAX_LAT` no GeoJSON file required!

Release v1.10.0 · protomaps/go-pmtiles

Changelog 72a7c2a Bbox cleanup (#82) dac421a Experimental stats output [#70] (#75) e53a394 Update README.md with extract details 933ea7b add pmtiles verify command [#65] (#76) c246392 mbtiles conv...

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11 months

Where is COG for Vector? On the @cloudnativegeo blog:

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1 year

Today's presentation slides at #FOSS4G on serverless geospatial now linked here:

Presentations

talk slides

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9 months

this seems like a good fit for @protomaps considering @levelsio already uses Cloudflare! What if hoodmaps + nomadlist replaced their tiles APIs with a single file on Cloudflare R2... 👀10m requests (unique users or not) should be <$20

@levelsio

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So @Mapbox 's @Marena_B was very friendly and supportive in getting this resolved, thank you 🙏 😊 Now we'll have to try figure out how to make Hoodmaps work financially because $10,000-$100,000/mo is a bit much I want every project I have to be able to be profitable stand

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Presentation on map scarcity and the motivations for @protomaps as an open source project, recorded at @NACIS last month, now online! New basemap shown here thanks to collaborators @kelsosCorner and @sensescape

Post-Scarcity Web Mapping with Protomaps - Brandon Liu, Protomaps

Post-Scarcity Web Mapping with ProtomapsBrandon Liu, ProtomapsThe Protomaps vector basemap is an open-source cartographic product designed for free reproduct...

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1 year

here's an alternative: 95% of OSM viewing use cases can be served by a planet-wide vector tileset stored as a single file on cloud storage - without restrictions on use or reproduction. ... and it exists right now!

stevecoast.eth

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Maintaining free mapping services for everyone on Earth is non-trivial. Making sure the map is also updated every minute is an additional large burden. It seems like maybe these services should be restricted to people using #OpenStreetMap

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2 years

Github Cleanup 🧹 Looking for tippecanoe? protomaps/tippecanoe has gone poof and all work + progress branches are now at its new home at

GitHub - felt/tippecanoe: Build vector tilesets from large collections of GeoJSON features.

Build vector tilesets from large collections of GeoJSON features. - felt/tippecanoe

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10 months

Just shipped a new version of basemaps styles that links to files hosted on GitHub Pages One-click zip download at All powered by font-maker which has been upstreamed to the @maplibre org:

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2 years

🎆that was fast! PMTiles-powered interactive, planet-scale hillshade in @openlayers via @tschaub

Tim Schaub

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2 years

@protomaps @maplibre @Cloudflare Here is a draft @openlayers version. Need to make some API improvements to make it as easy to integrate.

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3 months

At @sotmus today? here's the repo and slides for the "Protomaps from the Ground Up" workshop at 11AM. We'll build a Great Outdoors interactive map from @openstreetmap trails and terrain data, hosted on your own GitHub Pages

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1 year

pmtiles JS v2.8.0 released on npm * DecompressionStream polyfill should make the map smoother when loading large tiles on Chrome and Safari * Interact with MapLibre error reporting events correctly when exceptions happen

GitHub - protomaps/PMTiles: Cloud-optimized + compressed single-file tile archives for vector and...

Cloud-optimized + compressed single-file tile archives for vector and raster maps - protomaps/PMTiles

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9 months

Protomaps offers a free hosted basemaps API for non-commercial use! Commercial use is supported through GitHub Sponsors. You can now generate API keys on using GitHub or magic link login - no passwords required!

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1 year

PMTiles for all uploaded user data in @felt #foss4g

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10 months

"I’m so excited about this: we now have the ability to entirely self-host vector maps of any location in the world, using openly licensed data, without depending on anything other than our own static file hosting web server. " - @simonw perfect use case for extract+basemaps!

Simon Willison

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Weeknotes: DALL-E 3, GPT4All, PMTiles, sqlite-migrate, datasette-edit-schema

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1 year

I had the opportunity to be interviewed on the @MapScaping podcast about @protomaps ! Hear about the PMTiles tech, its relation to other geospatial concepts, and how this might make web mapping more accessible and creative. Thanks Daniel for having me!

Planet Scale Tiled Maps Without A Server - August 28, 2024

Protomaps is a serverless system for planet-scale maps, it's an umbrella project consisting of a few different components one of which is PMtiles. PMtiles is “Cloud Optimise Geotiff” for web mapping,...

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1 year

some repo/package renaming happening: protomaps.js -> protomaps-leaflet This project will have a slimmed down feature set and focus on what it's good at, which is drop-in vector and PMTiles rendering for existing Leaflet projects. feedback in issues!

GitHub - protomaps/protomaps-leaflet: Lightweight vector map rendering + labeling and symbology for...

Lightweight vector map rendering + labeling and symbology for Leaflet - protomaps/protomaps-leaflet

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1 year

Going to FOSS4G in Prizren next week? The "state of @protomaps " talk will be one of the first sessions on June 28: 11AM in Mirusha, right after @_VincentS_ 👀

Serverless Planet-scale Geospatial with Protomaps and PMTiles FOSS4G 2023

Protomaps is a simple, self-hostable system for tiled vector datasets. In the year since last FOSS4G, we've rolled out a new compressed specification (V3), added support for tile generation tools,...

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1 year

Check out the Network Planning Tool for Scotland, built by @DrMalcolmMorgan and @robinlovelace 's team! data overlays and base layers hosted using @protomaps tools!

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6 months

new TypeScript API documentation for the pmtiles js package, in case you're bringing your own storage backend, or your own tile renderer:

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@protomaps

6 months

There's a daily-updated mirror of the OSM basemap build () on the Source Cooperative @source_coop beta, hosted in AWS us-west-2 Get an access link to test out @cloudnativegeo workflows in the same region!

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1 year

New blog post on the open-source CDN integrations for @protomaps - accelerate your PMTiles, affordably, to users around the world (This used to be a commercial offering called Mantle but it's open source on GitHub now!)

Serverless Maps - Now Open Source

Accelerating Protomaps with a CDN for fast and affordable maps

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2 months

Updated docs on how to load @protomaps @maplibre styles via static JSON, script-includes CDN or NPM package:

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6 months

On the @MuckRock blog: "How to make self-hosted maps that work everywhere and cost next to nothing" Great write-up by @eyeseast !

Release Notes: How to make self-hosted maps that work everywhere and cost next to nothing

Can we build a better way to build — and maintain — maps? DocumentCloud developer Chris Amico shares his recent work exploring new advances and opportunities when it comes to self-hosting maps.

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@protomaps

3 months

There's a new easy-to-remember URL for the PMTiles viewer 🔎:

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1 year

pmtiles for JavaScript 2.10.0 released on NPM Recommend upgrading from 2.9 because it fixes some problems related to Web Workers and MapLibre GL JS. Please report any issues on GitHub!

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@protomaps

11 months

A while back Daniel from @MapScaping posed an interesting question: With the advent of cloud-native geospatial formats, are tiles obsolete? 👀 I wrote a short article for the MapScaping blog to try answering this... @cloudnativegeo

Are Map Tiles An Obsolete Technology - August 24, 2024

In a March 2023 episode of MapScaping, we discussed Protomaps, a serverless system for creating and serving tiled web maps. But what is a tiled web map, and

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2 years

There's a new Protomaps FAQ for those burning Qs like: - What is the difference between Protomaps and OSM? - Why use PMTiles over COG? - How are data updates handled?

Frequently asked questions

An open source map of the world with single-file deployment.

protomaps.com

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1 year

pmtiles CLI v1.9.2: * extract command works on public pmtiles URLs * you can pass it any GeoJSON (FeatureCollection, MultiPolygon, etc) * extracting is multithreaded (configure --download-threads)

Release v1.9.2 · protomaps/go-pmtiles

Changelog 544095d enhance extract 17fcecd remove extraneous print statement

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4 months

Check out @NPR 's interactive map story on USDA Plant Hardiness! - OSM + @protomaps powered basemap, overlays and @mapzen terrain

The USDA’s gardening zones shifted. This map shows you what’s changed in vivid detail

There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden.

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@protomaps

2 years

Did you know? @protomaps has a hosted Tiles API that's totally free for non-commercial use. You can get a key via the API link at the top of And if you'd like to use this commercially, become a GitHub Sponsor!

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10 months

Geospatial Tech Radar 2023 by @Element84 See anything familiar?

geospatial-tech-radar-23 • Element 84

Geospatial-Tech-Radar-2023Download

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7 months

Testers wanted! Release candidate of new PMTiles JavaScript library major version 3.0.0-alpha.2: * Proper ES6 module + named exports * MapLibre GL JS 4.x support * Improve browser caching and ETag correctness for updating archives on storage in-place

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1 year

New @geomob podcast episode on Protomaps is out! This covers different topics than our @MapScaping episode - comparing Protomaps to alternatives, explaining the relationship to OpenStreetMap, and discussing open source business models. Thanks Ed for hosting!

geomob

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1 year

Episode 176 of the podcast is up: we hear from @bdon , maker of @protomaps - a new paradigm in serving web based maps:

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11 months

Launch week #4 : pmtiles extract is out of beta! It powers the new Getting Started guide - download any size+shape area of interest with one command: It replaces the closed-source, limited-area PMTiles download service at .

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2 years

Read about how @felt uses PMTiles to support GIS dataset uploads for web maps - while running 0 tile servers 👀

Upload Anything: how we revolutionized data upload

Upload a CSV, XLS, SHP, GeoJson, GDB, KML, GML, OSM, GPX, or even image files, & it just works in Felt. Here's how we delivered this buttery smooth experience.

felt.com

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1 year

The Protomaps integrations for Cloudflare and AWS now support TileJSON! This should make PMTiles backwards-compatible with more existing map clients, like style editors.

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2 years

a lot of technical decision-making in web maps boils down to just "this is how Mapbox did it 10 years ago"

🥔🗺️ ᴘᴏᴋᴀᴛᴇᴏ ᴍᴀᴘs

@pokateo_maps

2 years

❓ today's #gischat question is also a #mappymeme : what opinion about GIS will land you in this position?

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8 months

Short in-the-weeds blog post on a small but important optional feature of PMTiles, clustered (ordered) archives:

What is a clustered PMTiles archive?

One detail in the PMTiles version 3 specification is a boolean flag called clustered. Popular tools like the pmtiles CLI, tippecanoe and Planetiler always create clustered archives. PMTiles is an...

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11 months

Launch week Day 2! There's now a first-class option for "serverful" instead of serverless deployment of PMTiles, via the @caddyserver plugin! Example setup and Caddyfile here:

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1 year

Berlin mappy friends - we're hosting a casual GeoBerlin social April 4th at KASCHK, organized by @insertcoffee @nils_nolde @bdon and @bertspaan ! find details on the GeoBerlin meetup group here:

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4 years

Map Bundles - a new system for basemap cartography, powered by vector tiles, with minute-level updates from OpenStreetMap. Try it out here:

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1 year

New releases of Safari, and now Firefox, implement the DecompressionStream API, which makes loading PMTiles in the browser smoother. pmtiles v2.10.0 will use this if it's supported!

DecompressionStream - Web APIs | MDN

The DecompressionStream interface of the Compression Streams API is an API for decompressing a stream of data.

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1 year

PMTiles users: you can now try a very alpha, experimental feature for extracting smaller tilesets from larger ones! pmtiles extract input.pmtiles output.pmtiles --bucket=s3://mybucket --region=poly.json instructions:

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1 year

State of the Map US @sotmus is less than a month away... There'll be a talk on the new open source @protomaps basemap system and how it complements the ecosystem of tiling and visualization tools. It's the last block of the conference on Sunday!

State of the Map US 2023

The annual United States conference for all OpenStreetMap users.

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1 year

First presentation at #foss4g done entirely on Nintendo Switch by @ilyazver

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1 year

PMTiles + MapLibre GL JS users should try out 3.0.0! It changes the behavior of rapid zoom-in gestures to load fewer tiles, which can feel faster in some situations. What's your experience like?

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@maplibre

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Say hello to MapLibre GL JS v3:

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Vector tilesets for UN Smart Maps made with tippecanoe and PMTiles! Presented by @_hfu_ #foss4g

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@protomaps

6 months

Our NLnet @NgiZero grant to advance free and open source maps on the web:

Protomaps receives NLnet open source grant

The Protomaps open source project is a recipient of a NLnet open source grant! This grant is part of the NGI (Next Generation Internet) initiative of the European Commission. Motivation The goals of...

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the @mapwithrapid @openstreetmap editor now has bring-your-own-data via pmtiles urls create a reference from datasets like @OvertureMaps -> store it in a single blob on s3 -> enhance OSM!

Bryan Housel

@bhousel

1 year

More Vector and PMTiles data! 🌍 Now you can add a @Protomaps PMTiles URL as a read-only reference data source. One exciting new source of data in PMTiles format is @bdon ’s PMTiles demo of the @OvertureMaps Foundation’s recently released places data. 4/6

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PMTiles specification 3.1 updates: * formalize vector_layers to describe vector tilesets and power TileJSON * add AVIF tile type * tighten language around tile size / directory length edge cases JS client (2.9) also updated to reflect above

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6 months

"this meeting could have been an email" "this webapp could have been a format"

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1 year

new pmtiles JS library release - 2.8.0-beta.0 Adopt @arjunbarrett 's fflate-based polyfill for the browser DecompressionStream API. Now that Safari 16.4 implements this, viewing tilesets should be smoother on Chrome and Safari! Try and report issues:

js: adopt DecompressionStream · Issue #167 · protomaps/PMTiles

fflate still needs to be used on Firefox, but Safari 16.4 supports this now: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/DecompressionStream

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2 years

If you are feeling adventurous you can try out the new PMTiles tooling in the following languages: * TypeScript (reading from static storage) * Python (reading + writing) * Go (reading + writing + ✨UPLOADING✨to the cloud) * C++ header-only routines

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1 year

Transitioning @protomaps from open-core to open source is how this goal will be realized...!

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1 year

What if: maps could be reproduced infinitely at zero marginal cost...?

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Launch week #3 ! Improved Chinese, Japanese and Korean glyph rendering has been merged into @maplibre GL JS v3.4.1. Text now looks great at larger label sizes. Just upgrade your GL JS version, it's free and open source! View an interactive demo here:

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3 years

My Little PMTiles: HTTP Is Magic tippecanoe + maplibre + pmtiles demo; all US zi code geoms in one 40MB archive, delivered straight from static storage to browser

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1 year

this is it - this is the greatest open source project name in web mapping

Vincent Sarago

@_VincentS_

1 year

I was almost forced by my colleagues (👋 @nerik @kamicut @sanjaybhangar ) to make this one Spending my flex week playing with the awesome @protomaps PMTiles format 🙏

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The @protomaps Europe tour happening in April: ~ April 1-11 Berlin ~ April 12-16 Netherlands ~ April 17-24 London Let me know if you're nearby and want to chat about web mapping and open source!

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10 months

Cloudflare Worker's new pricing model should reduce costs for @protomaps deploys by double digit %, making it even more affordable It's opt-in before the next March - I'm evaluating this in prod already for a refresh of the docs! Nice one @irvinebroque !

New Workers pricing — never pay to wait on I/O again

Announcing new pricing for Cloudflare Workers, where you are billed based on CPU time, and never for the idle time that your Worker spends waiting on network requests and other I/O.

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8 months

Check out @the_lettuce_cat 's transit projects built with @maplibre and @protomaps !

Transitstat.us

Transitstat.us is a free, open source, and easy to use transit tracker!

transitstat.us

lettuce

@the_lettuce_cat

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💖 I'm sponsoring @protomaps because Amtraker and Transitstatus would be nothing without it!

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1 year

Conferences for the rest of 2023 where you can hear about, complain about, or even just think about @protomaps : * @NACIS , Oct 11-14 * @foss4gna , Oct 23-25 * @SotmAsia , Nov 16-18 * #FOSS4G -Asia, Nov 28-Dec 2

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1 year

Tile serving techniques: great overview of PMTiles by @kanahiro_iguchi #foss4g

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10 months

Great application of the Protomaps basemap in @LeMonde_EN for interactive visual investigations, with a custom dark style Nice work @AubertRaphaelle !

Raphaëlle Aubert

@AubertRaphaelle

10 months

Our visual investigation is available in English @LeMonde_EN ⬇️ You can also check our interactive map (for free!) ⬇️

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@protomaps

2 years

love seeing @protomaps in use on *.gov.uk sites!

Malcolm Morgan

@DrMalcolmMorgan

2 years

The @ons team & @bothness seriously raised the bar with beautiful dasymetric maps in In a project for @SustransScot we needed to push the #dataviz even further. So I give you 3D dasymetric maps! #opensource & serverless thanks to @maplibre & @protomaps

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7 months

The promise of @protomaps : more maps, more possibilities, more places this weekend you'll be able to see it atop Salesforce Tower in SF via @erictheise

Bus Bays, SoMa, & FiDi

A segment of If Map #5 which runs atop San Francisco's Salesforce Tower Top throughout February 2024 in the Midnight Artist series (midnight to 1 every night,…

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@protomaps

2 years

GitHub cleanup 🧹 new home for is under the @MapLibre umbrella org, with a whole new UI and multi-file functionality too!

GitHub - maplibre/font-maker: Web app to convert font files into fontstacks for MapLibre GL

Web app to convert font files into fontstacks for MapLibre GL - maplibre/font-maker

github.com

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@protomaps

1 year

What if: maps could be reproduced infinitely at zero marginal cost...?

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1 year

Some other cool talks: @implgeo on PMTiles + Wordpress: @kanahiro_iguchi on static vs. dynamic tiling: @enf on tippecanoe 2.0 + PMTiles:

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@protomaps

1 year

Run your own! ✨

Benjamin Td

@_benjamintd

1 year

I'm soon going to have to pay my first @Mapbox invoice 🥲 Unfortunately 5$/1000 visits is unsustainable for an ad-supported website. Thinking of moving to Maplibre. What's a cheap way to serve a simple background map? Frequent updates and detail at high zooms unnecessary.

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2 years

Is... @protomaps powering this awesome interactive by the Post?👀 Nice!

Andrew Ba Tran

@abtran

2 years

kind of niche map tweet but this project used open source tiling tools and libraries! Also works great on mobile! #slippymaps #tooltips #nopebox @kevinschaul

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1 year

"A web application with 50,000 map loads using the Google Maps API will cost $350 per month. A similar amount of traffic running through a Protomaps CDN install on Cloudflare costs fifty cents in Workers request fees."

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2 years

the macOS command line pmtiles tool is now distributed as a notarized binary. no more warnings. Let's enjoy our expensive computers together.

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1 year

Deploying PMTiles by @indraneel24 from Two Sigma Data Clinic - nice overview of tradeoffs! @sotmus

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7 months

We’re doing it for maps Replace your SaaS and server with an s3 bucket!

dax

@thdxr

7 months

with every dhh take it’s easy to focus on why he’s obviously wrong but there’s always something more thought provoking that’s worth thinking about yes most self hosting most existing software is stupid - you don’t want to randomly be dealing with disk space running out for your

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8 months

Presenting the state of Asian web map localization with @protomaps and @maplibre - Nice quality recording from #FOSS4GAsia in Seoul! (Starts around 5:18) Thanks @jodygarnett for the intro too!

FOSS4G Asia 2023 Seoul_English_20231130

FOSS4G Asia 2023 Seoul_20231130

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@protomaps

8 months

hmmm

Patrick Collison

@patrickc

8 months

I wish digital maps had a setting to increase label density by a factor of 10+, for a perspective like the road atlases of yore. We manufacture these amazing high-resolution displays but then render maps in crayon.

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1 year

Nice methodology and comparison of COMTiles with PMTiles by @mactremmel ! Let’s make cloud-optimized formats even more optimized!

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1 year

@imwithpanda @tmcw @pwramsey 4096 units is displayed as 512 CSS pixel tiles on most renderers = 8 units of precision for every 1 pixel on a low density screen = 4 units of precision for every 1 pixel on a "retina" 2x screen that's pretty good!

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1 year

check out @indraneel24 's talk next week on adopting PMTiles!

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@sotmus

1 year

@indraneel24 will demonstrate how to use PMTiles for map-based web apps at #SOTMUS2023 . 💻

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@protomaps

1 year

perfect pair of numbers! savoring this brief moment

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2 years

updates on the go-pmtiles tool: * Continuing down on 1.X major version numbering (ignore the 2.0 tags, sorry). 1.7.0 is the latest * We need more GitHub stars, forks and watchers to be accepted into Homebrew! Throw the repo some love here:

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