ZYzylepe·Oct 23, 2023
The protomaps basemap is also built on planetiler: https://github.com/protomaps/basemaps - and Brandon is one of the main contributors a to planetiler!
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Basemap PMTiles generation and cartographic styles for OpenStreetMap data and more
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Basemap PMTiles generation and cartographic styles for OpenStreetMap data and more
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What Hacker News says
2 sourcesThe transformation of OpenStreetMap features into the basemap is open source and available under a permissive license now at http://github.com/protomaps/basemaps
This is the focus of most development for the next few months - like you said, it's also a matter of aesthetics and context, like if the map is underlying another PMTiles data layer it should be lower contrast then if it's overlaid with pin markers. The end goal is to have a flexible basemap solution adaptable to most apps but you are free to roll your own proprietary style on top of the open source tiles if you'd like (there are already companies doing this)
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