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Feb. 24, 2024, 4:19 a.m. |

Simon Willison's Weblog simonwillison.net

How to make self-hosted maps that work everywhere and cost next to nothing


Chris Amico provides a detailed roundup of the state of web mapping in 2024. It's never been easier to entirely host your own mapping infrastructure, thanks to OpenStreetMap, Overture, MBTiles, PMTiles, Maplibre and a whole ecosystem of other fine open source projects.


I like Protomaps creator Brandon Liu's description of this: "post-scarcity web mapping".

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