GIS hosting
reddit / selfhosted

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purged363506 · 2023-12-08 11:30

Does anyone have any suggestions for GIS hosting? Preferably something
containerized already?

I'm looking for something that can handle some basic layering and that
has a decent android client for data collection and viewing. Esri of
course charges a fortune and I've had some bad luck with qgis but
before I invest a bunch of time with it I thought I might check here
to make sure there isn't a better solution.

Thank you

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ygz6ktt9 · 2023-12-08 16:57

https://github.com/maptiler/tileserver-gl

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PatochiDesu · 2023-12-08 21:37

what i know is, that you can get for example an export of open street
map. this export can be converted in an sql based database. this
database can be used to render tiles if you add styles to it.
if you need routing there is also a solution that uses the export of
open street map.
keep in mind that there are possible limitations according to
commercial use.

rendered tiles can be cached to reduce load.
as far as i know all these components are containerized already and
can be found online.

especially the conversion into the sql format needs a lot compute and
also the tilegeneration is also not cheap on my opinion. when i was
into it i had limited hardware so I considered the use of azure/google
maps

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adamshand · 2023-12-08 21:38

We used QGIS at my last job and it was great.  Not an expert but I
worked with people who knew a lot and they preferred it to Arc.

Mapserver is also useful for pulling in feeds and PostGIS is pretty
much the standard backend.