The Surprising Anatomy of a One-Man Map Tech Stack

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.