Apache Baremaps: online maps toolkit

by l3xon 5/28/23, 6:53 PMwith 43 comments
by bchapuison 5/28/23, 8:28 PM

Hi, author here, I just noticed that Baremaps was submitted to HN. Our demo runs on PostGIS, and I'm surprised it's holding up under the load. I'm happy to answer questions.

Here is the fullscreen demonstration for those who are interested. https://demo.baremaps.com/

by abusaidmon 5/28/23, 8:41 PM

This is a great addition to the space. Do you plan to fill the gap left by mapbox for the open source community?

Things like map libs for mobile and the web with advanced things like 3d, navigation, elevation and the likes?

I feel like we need a go to solution that unchains away from the commercial solutions to power osm solutions across devices and use cases.

by aorthon 5/29/23, 5:18 AM

Cool. From this I also learned about geoBoundaries https://www.geoboundaries.org/ and Turf.js https://turfjs.org/ .

by fellowmartianon 5/28/23, 11:54 PM

What is the source of these maps? Toponyms in Crimea are shown in Russian.

by mtrcnon 5/28/23, 8:47 PM

Looks promising, I have published a paper about workflow systems in geospatial data processing (https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/11/1/20). I wonder if I can use this project to realize proposed system in my paper.

by jaipilot747on 5/28/23, 8:03 PM

When would I use Baremaps versus something like GeoServer?

by mch82on 5/29/23, 12:40 AM

Really cool! Any thought to Baremaps as an OGC API data provider for something like Pygeoapi?

https://docs.pygeoapi.io/en/stable/plugins.html

by LeoNatan25on 5/28/23, 10:14 PM

Just scrolling around Israel, it seems text rendering for RTL is broken.

https://demo.baremaps.com/#12.91/32.06932/34.75969

Should be “תל אביב”, not “ביבא לת”. How do these issues even exists in 2023? Is a team building these renders not aware of RTL languages, or do they just not bother implementing it?