r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/Maty_MM • 14d ago

I built Maparium — explore OpenStreetMap features across the entire globe

https://maparium.pl

I'd like to share a personal project I've been building.

Maparium lets you display thousands of OpenStreetMap features globally, from wind turbines, power plants and castles to volcanoes, spaceports, railway networks and data centres. You can switch between predefined layers and explore patterns that are difficult to spot when looking at individual locations.

I'm using MapLibre GL JS, a Protomaps basemap and custom MBTiles generated from OpenStreetMap data. A big focus has been making the experience fast and lightweight, even when displaying features on a global scale.

I'm building this mainly for fun and curiosity.

It's still a work in progress, but I'd love to hear what you think!

What other OpenStreetMap features would you like to explore this way?

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u/compounding-errors 9d ago

This is the kind of site you open for 30 seconds and somehow lose an hour exploring. Curious how much preprocessing you needed to keep all those global layers responsive

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u/Maty_MM 8d ago

Basically cutting tags and simplyfing underlying geometry on server side. For this set it takes several hours to process all the layers per run on my machine

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u/Dennis_Laid 11d ago

Cool! 👍

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u/aceusgrdj 8d ago

Wow this renders so smooth. Really cool project. I actually built something related. Here you can search and find Openstreetmap umaps and Google my maps because you normally would need someone to send you the link.

https://mapindex.org

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u/nonomild 10d ago

Nice work!

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u/goabbear 10d ago

Excellent !

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u/the_misadventurist 9d ago

This is really cool!

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u/Karankk123 9d ago

Very nich brother 👌

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u/lodist13 7d ago

Nice job!!! I really enjoy map apps and yours is super interesting. And I can relate to the responsiveness problems with such projects :)