Protomaps: Self-hosting map tiles has gotten cheap and easy

We're doing something like this behind Cloudflare R2, same concept of owning the map infra (for privacy and access-control) and reducing load on public infrastructure.

If you are into this stuff, you can view PMTiles from the CLI with "gloss", or try to drag-and-drop on its web interface [1]. It seems large tiles (>128M) and some raster formats are failing; plus it would be nice to load from URL there. Will fix that...

(AI warning). ntmaps [2] is a Golang library that lets you use different tile providers, deployable in terminal or browser. ntplaygrounds [3] uses that and nt3d and ntactor to make a city simulation. Data is pulled from OpenStreetMap in those.

[1] https://nimbleterminal.com/gloss/app.html [2] https://nimbleterminal.com/ntmaps [3] https://nimbleterminal.com/ntplaygrounds

I visited the link and Malwarebytes warned of a potentially malicious site:

p - proxy - tp8ez dot bunny dot run

so I closed that window.

What else you got?

okay, but what clients work with this approach?