Thanks 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 box parameters?)
> 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/
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 box parameters?)
> 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/