Accelerating Maps Last year I described Protomaps Mantle, a commercial solution for self hosting planet-scale maps without running any servers. It’s built on top of the open, cloud optimized PMTiles format, and adds the option of a content delivery network in front to accelerate map tiles to users anywhere in the world.
The code components of Mantle are now open source, under the same permissive licenses as the rest of the Protomaps software stack.

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Protomaps Mantle, a commercial solution for self hosting planet-scale maps without running any servers, is now open source and renamed. It includes features such as AWS Lambda and Cloudflare Workers functions, simple setup guides, and has been tested in production. It is used by Felt, OpenInfraMap, and The Washington Post. Protomaps CDN on Cloudflare is a cost-effective alternative to using the Google Maps API. Protomaps-on-CDN allows serving any tiled data at scale and offers free example datasets.

Serverless Maps - Now Open Source

<p>It’s great to be able to download it, it’s nice to have it all to yourself. You don’t depend on channels like Google, Yandex.</p>
