alt Hacker NewsWe'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
R2 is amazing for this.
Cloudflare, generally, is amazing for this, actually. It serves my personal hiking map for about $2/mo, using R2, D1 and Workers.
Building the map itself is free via GitHub Actions.
It's bonkers how the map world has changed over the last 20 years.