[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap Americana - Announcing a new American map style and call for collaborators!

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

Great idea feedback, thanks!  One more for the TO-DO list:
https://github.com/ZeLonewolf/openstreetmap-americana/issues/104

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 6:52 PM Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:

>
> "Brian M. Sperlongano" <zelonewolf at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi Greg - thanks for this question!  It is 100% possible to recreate this
> > locally or on your own servers via pure FOSS, and especially easy if you
> > only want a small area rendered.  MapTiler Cloud is simply a convenient
> > service that serves OpenMapTiles-compatible vector tiles for the planet,
> > and saves us from having to do a fairly resource-intensive planet render.
> > The downside is that it's not updated terribly frequently, and there is a
> > usage limit for their free tier, but it's something I hope that OSMUS can
> > address in the future.  Here's a set of steps that would get you up and
> > running on an openstreetmap-americana rendering of Massachusetts for
> > example:
>
> Great answer!  (trimmed, but I'll save it and someday try it.  My geo todo
> list is growing more often than it shrinks.)
>
> It would be nice to have this in the docs and pointed to by the opening
> page.  Even better, to take maptiler out of the architecture picture,
> and replace it with just "openmaptiles server", and then say in the text
> that maptiler is one implementation that can be used.  It comes across
> as architecturally needing that service.
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/attachments/20220126/70707390/attachment.htm>