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You should definitely check out openmaptiles.org. The guys at MapTiler did a great job open-sourcing this self-hosting solution.

I've been studying this to replace Google Maps with OSM on travelmap.net

The https://openmaptiles.org/ stack is open source and can in theory be used to generate tiles. I'm just commenting to warn you that the setup is very involved and requires an orchestra of Docker images. Processing the world will take many CPU days. How to parallelize the stuff or even get live updates is the "secret sauce" of MapTiler.

So if TileMaker is not for you, then the OpenMapTiles stack is neither.

You could try https://mapstyle.withgoogle.com/ or https://snazzymaps.com/build-a-map Then the trick will be exporting that to an .eps or .svg at 300-320 dpi (assuming Costco can/will accept that, you should call and ask what model printer they have and some more technical details).

Openstreetmap can export to .svg directly, but styling is not as easy, try https://openmaptiles.org

Post back with some examples you've made and the final product!

Certaines tiles sont lentes oui, maps doit avoir un meilleur cache ou quelque chose comme ça. Le fait que maps soit vectoriel plutôt que rasterisé (comprendre OSM on charge des images, Maps charge les données directement ce qui fait que si tu zoom t'as pas l'effet de pixels) ça aide beaucoup aussi à la fluidité. Le thème par défaut d'OSM est moins lisible, mais par contre OSM c'est en effet beaucoup plus rempli.

Je vois bien des projets comme https://openmaptiles.org/ qui se base sur les données d'OSM tout en intégrant ce dont je parle, ça serait bon pour le projet OSM si ils le faisaient d'eux même. Surtout que vu le site de Mapnik (le player d'OSM) ils ont l'air de supporter le vectoriel.

"They" use reddit ;) Thank you for your feedback. We get our vector tiles from OpenMapTiles. They write: "The lower zoom levels this is from Natural Earth data for glaciers and ice shelves and at higher zoom levels the landcover is implied by OSM tags." https://openmaptiles.org/schema/#landcover

Dammit, I meant to link this one. And it's open-source too. Of course that doesn't mean it is directly suitable for use by OSM, but the technology is there.

I mean, presumably if the OSM Foundation wanted vectorized tiles, they would at least have asked for help and made a list of requirements, no?

I think this is a good question, and hope someone has a better answer to it. It certainly should be a feature, since we, as a community, have gone to a fair bit of trouble to be put internationalised names data into OpenStreetMap. We should track different "Map Internationalisation" services and approaches on this wiki page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_internationalization My favourite one at the moment is the OpenMapTiles demo here: https://openmaptiles.org/languages/native/#0.53/0/0 I found myself using that one while in Japan.

However for printing, if you wanted to combine this with use of the "bigmap" tool, I think you'd need a raster tile service rendering "en" names. Is anyone publicly running such a thing for general use at the moment? I'm not sure. Running your own is always a possibility of course.

If you want to display a rather small area (let's say a few square miles) in a custom style, then it may be feasible to download it as OSM data, convert to GeoJSON, and just serve the entire GeoJSON file over HTTP. Make a pretty Mapbox style and plug in the GeoJSON data and you'll have a totally self-hosted slippy map of a few acres, no API keys needed AFAIK. I've done a project with this method, feel free to DM me if it's applicable to you.

If you want a proper tile system to handle large amounts of land/data (and don't want to make your own symbology/style) then unfortunately it gets a bit harder. I'm somewhat of a fan of Tegola, if you look through the docs and tutorials (see the navbar at top of the page) you'll see it's pretty easy to set up a premade style. You will need Postgres (PostGIS) to hold the data.

Maptiler/tileserver-GL/openmaptiles was already mentioned below. They do have a pretty easy plug-and-play setup, however, I didn't use them because I found their... business (?) to be EXTREMELY confusing. I couldn't tell what was free, what was paid, what was open source, what was proprietary, what they handle, what I have to handle... And it all seems to be split between OpenMapTiles, Maptiler, and Klokan Tech. It seemed like every article explained it differently and like it changed often over the years. Super confusing. But maybe that's just me. https://openmaptiles.org/

Finally: https://github.com/Overv/openstreetmap-tile-server I haven't tried this one before, but it seems kind of cool, and seems to be what you're looking for?

For something quick have a look at: http://maps.stamen.com https://openmaptiles.org/styles/

They both apply different filters and styles to open street map.

If not what you are looking for, they may help you with your searching.

Good luck.

The data schema is not "just ... OSM data structured in a specific way", there's decisions about what to include and transformations and derived tags and so on:

https://openmaptiles.org/schema/

You can reduce your obligations by processing OSM into tiles yourself (that leaves attributing OSM and OpenMapTiles).

It's not like an open license expert is going to indemnify you or take MapTiler to court on your behalf, so they can't say anything that solves the problem of MapTiler claiming certain rights on the downloads they provide.

You could put it all on a 512gb microsd the size of your fingertip for $80. Just checked and the full gutenberg zim is 60gb. If full wikipedia is 93gb, that's still 350 free for whatever. I'd add in the full Khan Academy video set and open source maps. Then fill in for more specific information as necessary/desired.

That's pretty phenomenal honestly when you think about it. A modern Library of Alexandria you could lose in between your couch cushions.

That's fair. It might involve more development work. It does look like there are a lot of resources for mapping/GPS with the raspberry pi on the internet.

I was thinking it's possible to use OpenStreetMap and OpenMapTiles (https://openmaptiles.org/) to render an image of the map on the e-ink display.

You are basically talking about coding your own tile cache server. I'd highly recommend you use something already available..this will probably be more work than you are planning for. You can use ArcGIS Online to host a tile layer without needing a whole VM. Also check https://openmaptiles.org/ http://geoserver.org/ and Mapbox.

OpenStreetMap est une base de données qui contient des informations cartographique (par exemple, à telles coordonnées il y a un arrêt de bus, de telles à telles coordonnées il y a un segment d'autoroute, etc.)

Mapbox est une entreprise qui propose des cartes intégrables dans des applications, basées sur les données cartographiques d'OpenStreetMap.

Qwant semble être basé sur OpenMapTiles (copyright en bas à droite de la carte), qui permet de générer ses propres "tuiles" sur la base d'OpenStreetMap. Les tuiles sont les images qu'on voit affichées.

Les tuiles ne suffisent pas, il faut aussi une couche logicielle pour choisir la quelle afficher, permettre de zoomer, de se déplacer, de rechercher un lieu, de calculer un itinéraire, etc.

Je ne sais pas si Qwant utilise Mapbox pour afficher les tuiles "OpenMapTiles" (c'est une possibilité technique sur le site OpenMapTiles), mais en tous cas ils ont contribué à Mapbox jusqu'en juillet dernier

In OsmAnd you can do it. Just click on the globe in the upper left and change from local names to russian. The cmap on www.openstreetmap.org it is always in local language as it is the best way for local mappers.

On desktop you can also use OpenMapTiles

You can make openstreetmaps as lightweight as you want. See examples here and here and you always can make your custom style if you don't find any suitable.

Mit https://openmaptiles.org kann man sich schöne interaktive Vektorkarten basteln. Als Auschnitt müsstest du dann die Rohdaten von der Region nehmen: http://download.geofabrik.de

Fürs Karten selber bauen fällt mir nur der klassische Weg über QGIS ein. Irgendwie so.