[HN Gopher] Team-based map making with Felt
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Team-based map making with Felt
Author : hinting
Score : 58 points
Date : 2023-02-28 18:03 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (felt.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (felt.com)
| dotBen wrote:
| [from linked page] _" Since the beginning, our plan has been to
| offer a free tier of Felt for personal use alongside paid tiers
| for professional teams. Starting in 2024, Teams and related
| features will be available only to paying customers._"
|
| On the one hand they've nixed their PLG entry, on the other hand
| I'm not entirely clear what the use case and market size is for
| personal use here is anyway let alone multi-user personal use.
| Maybe Can or Sam can elaborate...
| cancan wrote:
| hi ben! nice to hear from you again after many years. as sam
| mentioned, we hope to "secretly" follow the same playbook as
| many PLG products. check out felt.com/gallery for some examples
| of how people and companies use felt.
| hinting wrote:
| hey we're imagining it similar to figma or notion - lots of
| individual and free use cases, and when pros adopt it there's a
| paid tier
| hinting wrote:
| founder here and YC W15 w/ my last company. happy to answer
| questions!
| starkparker wrote:
| I've tried to get a set of vector tiles (`.pbf.json` generated
| with tippecanoe) working as a background, but the docs don't
| specify if vector tiles are accepted, and all the examples are
| raster tiles.
|
| Can you use vector tiles as a custom background? If so, how,
| and are there limits on format support?
| hinting wrote:
| right now just external raster tiles, but vector tiles is on
| the roadmap!
| linsomniac wrote:
| Looks beautiful! Trying to think up ways that real estate
| agents or brokers could use this, but all of the examples seem
| to be on a much larger scale like regions or states, as opposed
| to neighborhoods or small cities. Do you have any users doing
| fascinating things for real estate customers/agents/brokers?
| benoliver999 wrote:
| You find you can just stare at maps for ages and ages?
|
| If someone has one on the wall I'm immediately hypnotised.
| hinting wrote:
| haha i grew up with one of those big national geographic maps
| on my wall and it has a special place in my heart
|
| my favorite bit of today's launch is the gallery, where you
| can stare away! https://felt.com/gallery
| emptysea wrote:
| Looks interesting, like Figma but for maps
|
| Off topic, but I like how the site uses a green background,
| stands out in the sea of gray and black that most sites use
| goplayoutside wrote:
| They also just switched to MapLibre[1].
|
| 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34971453
| [deleted]
| gleb wrote:
| Any plans to offer SQL based sources, like Carto?
| MapsSlaps wrote:
| Very interesting! Does this support GeoTIFF images?
|
| I ask because I've got ~200 acres of forest I use a drone to
| survey. I generate a high resolution orthophoto, and I currently
| built my own site on top of leaflet using tiles cut from the
| large orthophoto.
|
| I'm working with conservation organizations to try and restore
| some stream habitat, and being able to markup maps together would
| be _incredible_ , but it looks like you are focusing on vector
| layers first?
|
| Is it possible to provide my own tile server url? (e.g. I'll host
| the tiles on S3/Cloudfront/whatever, I just want to fancy
| notation/collaboration infrastructure.)
|
| Edit:
|
| Follow up -- I'm just one person who happens to work with various
| conservation groups to maintain the health of my forest.
| Typically, these groups are already strapped for cash, but it
| looks like this wouldn't really fall under 'personal' use because
| it's multiple people collaborating on a map? Very curious about
| whether you plans include a price tier for "I guess I want
| something like this but I'm also just like, one dude and not a
| business"
|
| Edit 2:
|
| Looks like yes, I can bring my own baselayer. (In my case, I have
| two base layers, one topgraphic, and an additional one that's the
| raster image, but it looks like I could create a similar
| experience on Felt?) So really, then the question becomes one of
| pricing for small uses like mine.
| MapsSlaps wrote:
| Played around with it, looks like my particular use case is not
| supported (and also there appears to be a bug where the minimum
| tile zoom is not being respected for base layers?)
|
| I want a base layer of one map, with an additional base layer
| (or raster data layer) on top of that base layer. It appears I
| can have one raster base layer, and any number of vector data
| layers on top.
|
| Also, my tiles use -y, which I think is something I ought to
| fix (I just noticed this because I exported with the default
| output from ddb tile, which requires telling leaflet to use TMS
| or -y), so I can't just drop them in Felt.
| badcppdev wrote:
| So is it a 'Contact us for pricing' type thing?
| benoliver999 wrote:
| "Contact us to get felt"
|
| (sorry)
| hinting wrote:
| there's a bit on this at the bottom of the post: it's free for
| the rest of the year, and starting in 2024 the teams-based
| features will be paid. similar to figma or notion
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