Replacing Mapbox with open source solutions
I don't want to sound annoying, but it's a bit hard to generate raster tiles. I mean openstreetmap data is open and free, but it doesn't seem they distribute any software to build the raster tiles they host.<p>I don't know what they use, but it doesn't seem there is any software that is simple enough to use.<p>I just want to configure a subregion, call generate-tiles.py planet.xml or whatever, and be done with it.<p>I like open source, but there will always be open source software that is needlessly complicated because, well, it lets companies like mapbox and others to generate income for their expertise.<p>That's not the best open source spirit, in my view.