Peermaps

What I see this helping is the proliferation of OpenStreetMap applications. For instance, OsmAND and Maps.me (as I vaguely understand it? Please correct me if I'm wrong) have their own data files served from their own servers, copied from the source OpenStreetMap DB. Periodically, the app developers update the data on their servers, and users soonafter get those updates. (I like this system at least as an option; offline maps are convenient and at least in theory more private.) Where…

The website hasn't been updated in a while and the stack somewhat diverges from what is written there but we're very hard at work making all the pieces fit together. The p2p database (eyros) works pretty well with only some transfer size improvements left. The database is fully symmetric and runs fully in the browser with a ~400kb wasm build (will work on getting this down later). And the rendering stack works pretty well. The main hurdle at the moment…

I know about this project from HN and weeklyOSM but I feel posting it now (when most of the finally-we're-able-to-host-OSM-maps-in-distributed-way toolchain is still in development or planning) is a false start. The only ready-ish part is the renderer. I hope this will not become vaporware. For my taste - too much is different from everything we are familiar in the GIS world. Which is a good way to riskify (opposite of de-risk) your project.