protomaps

new pmtiles CLI feature (the most requested one)

pmtiles merge input input output

https://docs.protomaps.com/pmtiles/cli#merge

download new version here:

https://github.com/protomaps/go-pmtiles/releases/tag/v1.29.1

people kept asking for pmtiles merge, now there is pmtiles merge, inevitably they will ask why it refuses to work for overlapping inputs, here is why merging tilesets is hard (blog post):

https://protomaps.com/blog/pmtiles-merge-part-1/

The #protomaps project recently reached its goal of 50+ GitHub Sponsors!

Becoming a sponsor allows commercial use of the hosted API: http://protomaps.com/api and supports the compute and storage for free daily planet builds: http://maps.protomaps.com/builds/

GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/protomaps/

Cloud-Native Geospatial Storage Cheatsheet

https://bdon.github.io/cng-storage-guide/

Added a section to the Cloud Storage Docs on Bunny.net, an EU-headquartered CDN and storage platform

https://docs.protomaps.com/pmtiles/cloud-storage#bunny-net

(tip: it isn't S3-compatible so you can use curl instead)

New blog post on @mapterhorn@mastodon.social - terrain for web mapping

https://protomaps.com/blog/mapterhorn-terrain/

(How) do computer maps make money?

https://placing.technology/how-do-computer-maps-make-money

via @ingrid@everything.happens.horse

Going to NICAR this year? Check out the session "First PMTiles map" by @palewire@mastodon.palewi.re :

https://schedules.ire.org/nicar-2026/#/session/1303