Peermaps

kocio · 2020-04-16 03:30:43

Years ago OSM had some distributed solutions, like OSM@home (dead before 2007) and Tiles@home (dead before 2012). It is prehistoric for such a dynamic project as OpenStreetMap and basically nothing else happened since then (Mapeo might be one of the specific exceptions). Currently however new generic P2P mapping project emerges - Peermaps:

https://peermaps.org

It is based on the next generation web frameworks, called Dat and IPFS (InterPlanetary File System), so it does not have to deal with all the basic stuff, since this is already done as universal groundwork solutions (not limited to maps or any other kind of distributed data) and growing in usage:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dat_(software)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlan … ile_System

The project is in the infancy, so just look at some random up-to-date details:

- https://github.com/peermaps/roadmap
- https://github.com/ipfs/devgrants/pull/41
- https://github.com/peermaps/docs/blob/m … rschema.md
- UI mockups:

RicoElectrico · 2020-04-16 12:47:52

I wonder of what use is the editing function, or what the intention of authors is.

kocio · 2020-04-16 13:34:26

https://github.com/peermaps/roadmap#pee … ewereditor

However I'm not sure if data should be written to the OSM database (so that would be another editor) or maybe this special Peermaps database (eyros), but I think this would be the first solution.

kocio · 2020-04-22 02:34:31

A bit more news I could find:

https://peermaps.org/posts/2019-08-02-a … 19-update/

kocio · 2020-08-27 09:13:37

Some news about progress with IPFS/OSM:

https://github.com/ipfs/devgrants/issues/59

kocio · 2020-10-08 15:37:09

There's also a simple IPFS proxy:

https://github.com/lazyweirdo/osm-ipfs-proxy

See this thread:

https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtop … pid=770382

Zane Parker · 2021-02-28 20:59:51

kocio wrote:

Years ago OSM had some distributed solutions, like OSM@home (dead before 2007) and Tiles@home (dead before 2012). It is prehistoric for such a dynamic project as OpenStreetMap and basically nothing else happened since then (Mapeo might be one of the specific exceptions). Currently however new generic P2P mapping project emerges - Peermaps:
https://peermaps.org
It is based on the next generation web frameworks, called Dat and IPFS (InterPlanetary File System), so it does not have to deal with all the basic stuff, since this is already done as universal groundwork solutions (not limited to maps or any other kind of distributed data) and growing in usage:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dat_(software)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlan … ile_System
The project is in the infancy, so just look at some random up-to-date details:
- https://github.com/peermaps/roadmap
- https://github.com/ipfs/devgrants/pull/41
- https://github.com/peermaps/docs/blob/m … rschema.md
- UI mockups:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/peerm … creens.svg

thank you very much for the recommendations, it's very helpful for me! I would advise you to run your own tile server on Windows, but it really will take more time, but it seems to me that this path will be of better quality. If you will develop software in the future and in order to avoid such mistakes, I advise you to read detailed description in this article, which tells constructively and useful about what you should pay attention to when choosing a team that will carry out software development for you.

Last edited by Zane Parker (2021-03-02 10:40:54)

#1 2020-04-16 03:30:43

Peermaps

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