Interaktive Karten werden oft bei kommerziellen Anbietern außerhalb der EU eingekauft. Das bringt Abhängigkeit, Rechtsunsicherheit und kann mehrere 10'000 € im Monat kosten. Unser Gegenvorschlag: Lasst uns digitale Infrastruktur gemeinsam über ein Konsortium betreiben. 🧵 versatiles.org/consortium/de

VersaTiles-Konsortium – Digitale Souveränität bei Karten

Karten sind Infrastruktur. Wir suchen zehn Organisationen, die ihre Karteninfrastruktur mit uns gemeinsam betreiben – Europas erstes nutzergetragenes, offenes Kartenkonsortium. Für echte digitale Souv...

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Free satellite imagery for 11 EU countries now live: tiles.versatiles.org#map=11.09/52... The full 720 GB dataset: download.versatiles.org A list of the current data sources: versatiles.org/sources/ Yes, there are still a lot of bugs, but ... step by step. github.com/versatiles-o...

In order to prepare the map and download servers for worldwide satellite and orthoimagery, I need to migrate some of our infrastructure. Unfortunately, this may result in brief outages over the next 1-2 days, but I will try to keep these to a minimum.

We are at #39C3. 🖖 Get in touch if you'd like to meet and talk about VersaTiles.

Two new experimental updates: 1. The latest map data now includes 11 languages! 2. We have developed a new 'Maplibre VersaTiles Styler' tool to help you create map styles interactively. You can test both features here: tiles.versatiles.org

Great news! We are releasing the first demo of our new free satellite map data. It's still a work in progress, but you can help us cover more countries. versatiles.org/satellite_de...

VersaTiles Satellite Demo

Try the beta version of our free satellite map tiles.

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I'm curating a collection of projects that use VersaTiles. If you have one, you can add your showcase here: docs.versatiles.org/compendium/s...

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A completely FLOSS map stack.

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Mühelos eigene Karte erstellen und in eure Online-Artikel intergieren? In seinem Workshop beim Inspiration Day 2025 zeigt euch Michael Kreil @versatiles.bsky.social, wie das geht. 🗓️ 15.Oktober 2025 📍MIZ Babelsberg Infos zu allen Workshops beim Inspiration Day: 🔗 t1p.de/9kc28

At FrOSCon, I presented the current state of VersaTiles, including a sneak peek at worldwide satellite data, the new map editor, and the new Docker container with nginx and TLS. (mk) media.ccc.de/v/froscon202...

VersaTiles - finally maps for everyone

<a href="https://versatiles.org">VersaTiles</a> is a powerful, free and open web map stack that runs on every major platform. Now, you ca...

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🌍 Planet-wide OSM vector tiles, built with Planetiler + Shortbread + VersaTiles. You can help us to squash quirks & polish the layers! Demo → planetiler.versatiles.org Code → github.com/versatiles-o... #OpenStreetMap #GIS

RFC: We need to extend the Mapbox TileJSON specification to include more information about map tile sources. What are your thoughts on the following proposal? github.com/versatiles-o...

RFC: Extend TileJSON 3.0 · Issue #54 · versatiles-org/versatiles-documentation

Although TileJSON 3.0 is the de facto way to publish basic metadata for map-tile sources, it leaves several important questions unanswered. Does the tile source provide raster or vector tiles? Are ...

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Since Mapbox's fontnik library is no longer maintained, we've written a completely new glyph rendering engine in Rust that solves many of the old problems. github.com/versatiles-o...

GitHub - versatiles-org/versatiles-glyphs-rs: Rust implementation of a SDF glyph renderer

Rust implementation of a SDF glyph renderer. Contribute to versatiles-org/versatiles-glyphs-rs development by creating an account on GitHub.

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The full VersaTiles documentation is online on our new website: docs.versatiles.org

We are releasing the prealpha version of our free map editor. This allows to quickly and easily create and publish your own maps. versatiles.org/node-versati... Feel free to play with it, find bugs, collect ideas for improvements/features and add them as new GitHub issues: github.com/versatiles-o...

We've developed a new frontend specification (1), updated the styles (2), released a new frontend (3) and updated our free map server (4) accordingly. [1]: github.com/versatiles-o... [2]: github.com/versatiles-o... [3]: github.com/versatiles-o... [4]: tiles.versatiles.org

We have migrated to a new, faster and cheaper download server: download.versatiles.org

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VersaTiles: Open-Source-Projekt als Alternative zu kommerziellen Kartendiensten

Das Open-Source-Projekt verspricht Medien, NGOs und der Open-Source-Community eine kostenfreie Alternative zu kommerziellen Kartendiensten.

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Der Vortrag "VersaTiles – Freie Karten für alle" ist jetzt online! In unter 30 Minuten erkläre ich den Aufbau eines neuen, freien Kartenstacks, der in Sekunden installiert werden kann. ➡️ Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A51...

VersaTiles - freie Karten für alle

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