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Thank you for sharing the story! I hope OpenFreeMap can contribute either with the MBTiles / Btrfs dumps, or with the public instance.

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Thanks for offering the service! The intensity of map tile pricing is always a little baffling to me. For example, with mapbox this month we (got linked to on The Verge and) exceeded the free tier on the 22nd. Two days later and we have a $40 bill and counting, with a week left in the month. We're a free, open source project and can't handle dynamic pricing like this.

My only feedback on your tiles is the lack of POIs. Mostly just bus stops and an occasional supermarket in my area. But I see from the github that this is on the roadmap.

Thanks a lot! Yes, I believe this dynamic pricing is making it impossible for small or non-profit projects to host maps. And you can see, "fun" maps basically disappeared from the internet - they were really common 10 years ago!

For POIs, they are present in the data, it's just that the styles might not have the matching icons for them. But you can always make them into a circle, etc.

Having said that, working on the styles is a big and never ending effort, so if someone would like to help with matching the POIs then contributors welcome.

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