[bcks]

I lurk in an online community of journalist coders and some folks there are excited about PMTiles as cost-saving way to host your own custom-styled map tiles.

See, for instance, "How The Post is replacing Mapbox with open source solutions" https://www.kschaul.com/post/2023/02/16/how-the-post-is-repl...

[wolverine876]

How do the publications know this data is accurate?

[lmeyerov]

Most of these piggyback on the OSM for the data tier, which $T companies work on. Afaict the discussion is more about compute on top - tile generation, interactive renderers, ... .

[loughnane]

Sounds like a neat community. Can you share where it is?

[bcks]

Sure thing, check out NICAR-L: https://www.ire.org/resources/listservs/