OKAY, I'm reasonably happy with the current version. I now have a "progress map" on AlphabeticalZürich, available at https://www.alphabeticalzurich.ch/map.html

The base tiles are @protomaps, with an extra dash of Leaflet (https://leafletjs.com/), an export of my progress spreadsheet as CSV, and some "let's throw some Zürich opendata at the geometry problem".

And a non-zero amount of work to integrate it as I wanted (including "how do I avoid trivially leaking my API key"), but I *think* it's reasonably clean. It would probably warrant a proper blog post, if only to document things for myself, but now I need a break (... since at least few hours if I'm being honest with myself.)

But there, I'm happy - now I need to update the spreadsheet and the real-world data below it :D

#AlphabeticalZürich #maps #protomaps #leaflet #opendata

Wonderful podcast episode with @bdon of @protomaps fame 🤗

This conversation is awesome to get a better understanding of #Maps, the #OpenStreetMap data, running an open source project, and how it all comes together in #Protomaps and #Maplibre 🗾

https://www.softwaresessions.com/episodes/protomaps/

#Mapstodon #Geo

Interesting conversation with Brandon from #Protomaps, on he Software Sessions podcast.

https://www.softwaresessions.com/episodes/protomaps/

Some key points from my pov:

Maps are a primitive of the web, built on the standards and code infrastructure originally specified for video.

Google Maps may be the most successful tech project, ever.

Open source code, like Mapbox GL JS and Mapzen, is an inherited legacy that is not lost, but built upon.

Zoom is an essential primitive of web map rendering.

If anyone is interested in #pmtiles #protomaps self-hosted map tile cost comparisons between Cloudflare R2 and AWS S3 and AWS S3 + Cloudfront, here is what we experienced:

R2: $1.67/mo
S3: $4.87/mo
S3 + Cloudfront: $5.49 (but we also added 3 addt'l 5-gb buckets)

as a baseline with mapbox, we were using about 60k "map loads" per month, which equates to $50.