Protomaps
Serverless maps from a single PMTiles archive
Protomaps is an open-source project for displaying maps from a single static file in the PMTiles format. It enables serverless map hosting on object storage or a CDN with no tile server required.
Key features
- Single-file map archives
- Serverless hosting
- Works on object storage
- Cheap to operate
Strengths
- Released under the BSD-3-Clause license
- Active community (3.1k GitHub stars)
- Written in TypeScript
- Tiny footprint — runs in 256 MB RAM
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