BAbartlomieju·Jul 30, 2021
BuntDB [0] from @tidwall uses this package as a backing data structure. And BuntDB is in turn used by Tile38 [1]
[0] https://github.com/tidwall/buntdb
[1] https://github.com/tidwall/tile38
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Real-time Geospatial and Geofencing
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What it is
Real-time Geospatial and Geofencing
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What people are saying
On a side note, tidwall (Josh) is one of the primary reasons why I want to give Go a go. I love https://github.com/tidwall/tile38.
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- tidwall/buntdb · linked in 2 of the same discussions
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 5 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesThanks for the pointers -- Leaflet I know as the visualization layer that is basically not-mapbox-GL. The rest are new to me, and will crawl through them.
One of the nice out-of-the-box systems I've come across is Pelias[0], what are your opinions on it? It bundles and provides the API so it's one of the things I've thought to self-host if I'm going to. It looks like it doesn't do tiles so I'd need to find something for that?
From deep in my bookmarks I also have:
- https://github.com/tidwall/tile38 (in-memory search+geofencing+other)
- https://openlayers.org/ (visualization, alternative to leaflet?)
- https://download.geofabrik.de/ (where to actually download the OSM data, to hand it to something like PostGIS)
- https://github.com/maptiler/tileserver-gl (A tile server... which presumably needs OSM data & takes coordinates with bounding b
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> I do have a decade of experience building web mapping applications
> I don't have a GIS background in particular;
It's only on HN that you get statements like this, haha, what do you think 10 years of experience building mapping applications is? I building mapping applications is generally what people consider "GIS background" -- if you did GIS but never produced any maps... would the trees make a sound?
[0]: https://pelias.io/