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Use Preferred tile.openstreetmap.org URL
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9 sourcesThis would be quite convenient when dealing with MBtiles files hosted on S3 or similar. There are efforts such as PMTiles[1] that let us use HTTP Range query to retrieve tiles directly from S3, but we still have to convert MBTiles to PMTiles first.
More importantly that OSM is considering providing MBTiles directly (besides PBF)[2].
[1]: https://protomaps.com/docs/pmtiles/
[2]: https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/565
In Show HN: Query SQLite files stored in S3I generated my own vector tiles using OpenMapTiles. Planetiler looks very promising too.
I serve the tiles using TileServer GL Light. It works but it requires Node.js v10.
OpenStreetMap is planning to make their own vector tiles style to convert their raster tiles. Looking forward to that!
https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations
In Host your own OpenStreetMap Map TilesOpenStreetMap looking for more US rendering capacity
2 points · Open discussionOpenStreetMap: Increase US Rendering Capacity
13 points · Open discussion> That seems like a bunch of FUD. Do you think that the sites that do have ipv6 are spending any significant amount of time "dealing with stupid broken client configurations"?
Ask Google, Cloudflare or Akamai engineers (those who actually deal with IPv6 problems) and they'll probably answer somewhere between "it's harder in practice" to "why can't peering issues go away when they f**king interconnect on IPv4"? It's not that IPv6 is inherently problematic, actually it's a lot better theoretically, but in practice unless you are a large network which has the capability to connect to everywhere in world and sidestep peering issues like Google, Akamai, and Cloudflare, you will encounter problems immediately. This is not theoretical, you haven't seen the likes of OpenStreetMaps who are experiencing peering problems (https://github.com/openstre
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etmap/operations/issues/559), and not everyone can use US services which exposes them to risks like the CLOUD Act, which allows US law enforcement to access data anywhere as long as it is operated by US companies (most European companies for example).
The real problem of deploying IPv6 is that despite record-high prices of IPv4 addresses and the cost of CGNAT (both monentary and performance-wise), it's still cheaper to do IPv4 only rather than dealing with the hassles of running both IPv4 and IPv6. With IPv4, you can just pick a Tier-1 carrier and you're guaranteed to traverse the whole internet, at least those who didn't proactively blocked you. With IPv6, you are exposed to ugly Tier-1 fights like when Hurricane-Electric tried to interconnect to Cogent to no avail (https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/22/peer...), even trying to bake a cake à la Microsoft-Mozilla browser cake wars (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CObnXjmDtg), and even today it's still not resolved (https://www.theregister.com/2018/08/28/ipv6_peering_squabble...). Even Google is not spared with this interconnection woes: it's mitigated, sure, but there are still some parts of IPv6 internet that cannot reach Google, it's just those parts don't really use Google's services or have sane IPv4 interconnectivity (and to clarify, this isn't due to state-level blocking, those people just didn't realised that they don't have a path to Google via IPv6).
Also some internet services (some video streaming protocols for example) also use other services than HTTP and will actually need to adapt to IPv6, but this is a very small issue (because you can fix software easier than pettyness) than the peering issue described above.
Nice :)
There's an ongoing effort to research vector tile solutions for openstreetmap.org. I wonder how your software stack compares to tilemaker, which has seen some optimization lately.
https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/565
In Show HN: Flatmap – a new tool to make vector tiles from OpenStreetMap data fasthttps://github.com/openstreetmap/operations is looking for help. https://operations.osmfoundation.org/policies/owg-membership...
In Ask HN: How can I find non profits to contribute software effort to?The Operations Working Group, the sysadmins holding the servers together, are all volunteers. http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Operations_Working_Group
and keeps a list of hardware and open issues. https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations (more help always welcome).
A frequent question is why the hardware bought and not rented hourly/yearly with a PaaS. First of all the bandwidth requirement are huge and it would put too much pressure on the organization to reach donation goals every year.
Besides the donation runs you can also become a member (https://join.osmfoundation.org/normal-membership/) or you company a corporate member (http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Corporate_Members).
Unlike wikipedia the donation drive won't need months. If I remember correctly last year two companies gave 20.000 USD each. That said: donate now please
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