headwaymaps/headway
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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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Quite cool to see this space being explored! https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway is another related project.
comment by dabreegster · 2026-01-03 · in Show HN: Offline tiles and routing and geocoding in one Docker Compose stack -
…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? -
…and beta testers. There’s an obtainium link in the repo README.md if you want updates. :) [0] https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway
comment by ellenhp · 2025-09-17 · in Show HN: Cardinal Maps – FOSS Android Maps App -
Nice, thanks for sharing! https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway also worth checking out.
comment by 3np · 2024-05-26 · in Show HN: ServerlessMaps – Host your own maps in the cloud -
In a similar vein: https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway
comment by 3np · 2024-02-18 · in How to make self-hosted maps that work everywhere and cost next to nothing -
Also worth to keep an eye on: https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway/
comment by 3np · 2023-09-21 · in Organic Maps: An open-source maps app that doesn't suck -
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…
comment by breunigs · 2023-03-10 · in Serverless maps at 1/700 the cost of Google Maps API -
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…
comment by ikawe · 2023-03-07 · in Adding Transit Directions to Maps.earth -
…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
comment by 3np · 2022-11-23 · in Self Hosting a Google Maps Alternative with OpenStreetMap -
Related concept (recently submitted to HN) https://github.com/headwaymaps/headway
comment by quickthrower2 · 2022-08-30 · in Host your own OpenStreetMap Map Tiles -
…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
comment by ellenhp · 2022-08-22 · in Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps -
…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
comment by ellenhp · 2022-08-22 · in Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps -
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…
comment by ellenhp · 2022-08-22 · in Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps -
…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
comment by abetusk · 2022-08-22 · in Maps.earth – free and open-source web maps -
…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.
comment by 3np · 2022-08-11 · in Ask HN: Google Maps alternatives that uses OSM and has a review feature