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Self-hostable maps stack, powered by OpenStreetMap.

17 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 2 stories, 15 comments · first 2022-08-11 · latest 2026-01-03

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  1. Quite cool to see this space being explored! https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway is another related project.
  2. …privacy conscious way isn’t unfathomable. [1] https://organicmaps.app (though there are others) [2] https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway (see a hosted demo at https://maps.earth )
    comment by ikawe · 2025-10-09 · in Why Self-Host?
  3. …and beta testers. There’s an obtainium link in the repo README.md if you want updates. :) [0] https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway
  4. Nice, thanks for sharing! https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway also worth checking out.
  5. In a similar vein: https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway
  6. Also worth to keep an eye on: https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway/
  7. You might want to peek at https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway . I have never used it myself, but it at least shows how to integrate the different pieces. The individual software components often have alternative with a similar scope. So…
  8. Headway ( https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway ), a free and open mapping platform, has some new functionality to enable transit directions on planet scale instances. maps.earth is our planet scale demonstration site. I posted here both…
  9. …vain, there is maps.earth / headway. Aiming to be easy to self-host and very open to contributions. https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway https://about.maps.earth/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32551273
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    Self-hostable maps stack, powered by OpenStreetMap
    story by taubek · 2022-09-17 · 29 comments
  11. Related concept (recently submitted to HN) https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway
    comment by quickthrower2 · 2022-08-30 · in Host your own OpenStreetMap Map Tiles
  12. …but the disk usage might change because I suspect my Pelias index is missing a lot of information. https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway#system-requirements
  13. …chat more in-depth. In principle I'm open to this but the privacy implications are a little weird. https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway/issues/50
  14. This is tracked here: https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway/issues/85 It's going to be somewhat tricky because of a few mediocre decisions I made early on in the development process, but if you were up for helping out I'd love to get a…
  15. …needs ... 8GB of memory ... running ... around 4GB ... > ... recommend ... 50GB ... disk space [0] https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway [1] https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway#system-requirements
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    Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps
    story by ellenhp · 2022-08-22 · 111 comments
  17. …is nontrivial) but it could be nice if you fleshed out a more detailed feature request over at https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway/ - it checks your other boxes.