OpenFreeMap survived 100,000 requests per second I was about to post about how nice the last 10 months of OpenFreeMap have been. The architecture has really proven itself to be great, Cloudflare has agreed to sponsor the bandwidth, Hetzner servers are super stable as always,

The country map of Afghanistan above is actually an image that is dynamically generated from a Blade view using @OpenFreeMapOrg and puppeteer and then cached as a base64 encoded string as I don't really want to load a mapping library in every embed.

Demo highlight specific streets, using @OpenFreeMapOrg vector tiles in @maplibre https://t.co/NIp4zTyzBA

One more amazing project using OpenFreeMap: Streetview roadtrip simulator by @nealagarwal Launched today and instantly became the #1 site using @OpenFreeMapOrg ! Neal reached out beforehand and generously provided a $150/month sponsorship via @github Sponsors, fully covering

Dan Snow created a beautiful website, https://t.co/JrUqeDBA2s. I love the minimal design, how immediately functional it is, and it even uses OpenFreeMap! At the bottom of the About page, I found: "I was inspired by the OpenFreeMap project and wanted to use my own domain

HERE maps just became 10x more expensive. Turns out, they've been billing with the wrong unit price before: 0.00000899 vs 0.00008919 Now that's one thing you don't need to worry about with OpenFreeMap.

Many of you don't know, but @OpenFreeMapOrg is hosted on 2 different servers in 2 different countries: one in Germany and one in Finland. The DNS setup is configured so that if one server is offline, your browser automatically picks the other one. I also made a tiny script that

That's a super nice and useful project, thank you for making it!

Wow, super nice style, didn't know this is possible!

GitHub user plon created an open-source real-time map using OpenFreeMap. It's showing free UIUC study spaces and empty classrooms. The website is open source. https://t.co/QRZ0hFUYED https://t.co/QFtRiDGSRo

Added two styles to @OpenFreeMapOrg. Dark and Fiord. You can use them but they are not polished like the three main styles shown on the homepage. Readme: Dark and Fiord is not yet complete. They are unmodified, which means they are exactly as they are on their source repo, with

One month after launch, OpenFreeMap hit its first sponsorship goal of $175/month! Thanks to our amazing supporters, we can now fully cover server costs. The project is officially self-sustainable!

First month of OpenFreeMap I launched OpenFreeMap on HN exactly a month ago. Well, it's not exactly correct, as I first submitted it to HN 5 days before, when absolutely nothing happened (1). The second time it became the 12th most successful Show HN of 2024 (until today), with

Thank you @CodingGarden for the super nice video and for making examples in 5 (!) different frameworks! I'll add a link to them on the official page!

Thanks to our amazing community, we now have our first video tutorial for OpenFreeMap! A big shoutout to @giswqs for integrating it into the Jupyter notebook environment!