Add info on tile layers & fair use somewhere, allow to add own tile provider

[jancborchardt]

As far as I know, all the tile providers we have are kind of "fair use", that is if you have a big instance and use it a lot you should actually not use them and add your own tile provider. Right?

We should probably:

• Clarify this info about the tile servers and thank them somewhere
• Link how to add a custom Mapbox/other provider url for tile layer (we only have that for routing atm)
• Link an easy guide how to host your own tile server, probably with https://openmaptiles.org ?

What do you think @nextcloud/maps?

[julien-nc]

There is no way to easily add a tile layer for now. It's definitely a feature coming in further versions.

Yep about the tile server setup guidelines and yep about thanking the amazing public servers we use.

[km6slf]

Adding an option to specify the URL for the tile server, and potentially a back up tile server, similar as is currently done for the routing server, would be very helpful.

I was able to go into the coding and hard code in my own tile server, but it made it impossible to update the map application.

[km6slf]

Could this be as easy as adding a way to incorporate nextcloud admin input into mapLayers.js?

[tacruc]

Adding an option to specify the URL for the tile server, and potentially a back up tile server, similar as is currently done for the routing server, would be very helpful.

I was able to go into the coding and hard code in my own tile server, but it made it impossible to update the map application.

Could you send a patch of the changes you did?
It would be a good basis for a fix.

[km6slf]

I did it over a year ago so I'm not sure I'm remembering correctly, but I think I made the changes below in my src/data/map Layers.js Original line 54 to 65: { id: LayerIds.OSM, name: 'Street map', type: LayerTypes.Base, url: 'https://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png', attribution: '&copy; <a href="http://openstreetmap.org">OpenStreetMap</a> contributors, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ ">CC-BY-SA</a>', options: { id: 'Open Street Map', noWrap: false, detectRetina: false, maxZoom: 19, }, }, Changed to access the tile server I set up on the emergency data network: { id: LayerIds.OSM, name: 'Street map', type: LayerTypes.Base, url: 'http://km6slfmap.local.mesh/{z}/{x}/{y}.png', attribution: '&copy; <a href="http://openstreetmap.org">OpenStreetMap</a> contributors, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ ">CC-BY-SA</a>', options: { id: 'Open Street Map', noWrap: false, detectRetina: false, maxZoom: 19, }, },

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[Siedlerchr]

At first it would help to add an option or to select a different osm provider for a basemap, for example default OSM map renders for example Japanese or Chinese letters which I can't read. In constrast openstreetmap.de has German translations and at least latin transliteration.