tags : Geography, Cartography
FAQ
What a selfhosted map pipeline looks like?
- Release Notes: How to make self-hosted maps that work everywhere and cost next to nothing • MuckRock
- How to Build a Geospatial Lakehouse, Part 2 - The Databricks Blog (See Data Engineering)
What are the different providers?
- Map database
- Geocoder
- Why do we need this?
- Example: OpenCage
Mapping databases
Players for map Dataset
Google Map
OpenStreetMap Stuff
Apple Maps
Overture Maps
- Source of data: Unlike OSM, it doesn’t rely on a community of mappers who manually update maps. Instead, it aggregates data from a variety of sources such as: sensors, satellites, aerial images, government sources, as well as data provided from its members (e.g. Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom).
- USP: Focussing on enterprise customers
- But it’s cheaper than google maps as it’s open
- See
What do these dataset contain?
These different dataset providers(Google, Apple, OSM, Overture etc.). Non exhaustive.
- Layers
- See this explanation on OSM layer names
- Places
- What else?