Protomaps is a independent project to build a new map of the world. This scale of mission demands a wide range of novel frontend and backend components, like an open source spatial database, a serverless tile archive format, and a vector map renderer. There’s also a web application — the one you’re looking at now — with subsystems to process background tasks, ingest metrics and manage objects on cloud storage. Finally, there’s the core map engine for cartographic generalization and ...
