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The Protomaps project consists of: The open PMTiles format; The tools and ecosystem for creating and publishing PMTiles; A basemap PMTiles created from OpenStreetMap data and other open sources. Mapping apps need background context to help humans understand where things are. The base layer has water bodies, buildings and roads. You could use Google Maps and Apple maps for those, but Protomaps is open...

Developing software for OpenStreetMap data all starts with the PBF - it’s nodes, ways and relations in the raw, native OSM format. You can make tiled maps, PostGIS databases, or GeoJSON out of PBFs, but those conversions lose some tagging and metadata. With PBF, you get pure OpenStreetMap! The global OSM.org website provides a weekly copy of the entire planet as one ~80GB PBF....

The PMTiles format is a cloud-native way to visualize map data in the browser, directly from cloud storage. Browser decoding via the TypeScript implementation is ideal for most use cases, and accelerated deployment options run on AWS and Cloudflare. Here’s some highlights of new platforms and integrations in 2024: Style Editor Maputnik is a visual editor for MapLibre Style JSON that’s been migrated to...