Display custom maps on your website for free (News)

在您的网站上免费显示自定义地图(新闻)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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2024-10-01

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OpenFreeMap puts OpenStreetMap data on your website for free, Fatih Arslan builds a Dieter Rams inspired iPhone dock, Joseph Gentle thinks the Rust programming language feels like a first-gen product & the web dev community is debating the viability of Web Components once again.

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  • What up nerds?

  • Shabboi I'm Jared and this is Changelog News for the week of Monday, September 30, 2024.

  • So the WordPress mess, aka implosion is almost too much for me to pick a single canonical link to summarize it, but I also don't want to do an entire episode about that one story.

  • So what's a guide to do?

  • I know I'll punt it entirely to the bottom of the newsletter, but make up for it with a rock solid meme plus an unordered list of links to review.

  • We're containing the WordPress mess to today's newsletter link in the show notes the audio version remains squeaky clean.

  • Okay, let's get into the rest of the news.

  • Display custom maps on your website for free.

  • Open Free Map takes map data from OpenStreetMap and serves up the necessary tiles in various styles for anyone to render them on their website or app for $0.

  • Kinda amazing.

  • Using our public instance is completely free.

  • There are no limits on the number of map views or requests.

  • There's no registration, no user database, no API keys, and no cookies.

  • We aim to cover the running costs of our public instance through donations.

  • End quote that sounds almost too good to be true, and it probably is unless people step up with recurring donations.

  • However, the services creator Zolt Aero has taken a few steps to make sure it's not prohibitively expensive.

  • Quote There is no tile server running, only nginx serving a butterfs image with 300 million hard linked files.

  • This was my idea.

  • I haven't read about anyone else doing this in production, but it works really well.

  • There is no cloud, just dedicated servers.