Draft: Keep streets-gl alive

[alexandargyurov]

Hello everyone! I've managed to update streets-gl to use the latest data from OSM. I plan to write a full step-by-step guide on how to achieve this and add it in a new DOCS folder in this repo. The process involves cloning https://github.com/StrandedKitty/planetiler, downloading the planet.osm.pbf, and running a very long process to generate the tiles (8 hours on GCP!)

You can access the new build here: https://streets-gl.onrender.com/
(the server is tiny, expect it to be slow, will upgrade it if it needs some more juice)

Update: The tile server on GCP (tiles.axlemaps.com) was costing me $50 p/m to run it - after 4 months of running it I thought they'd be the time to focus on streets-gl, however, life found a way to distract me with slightly more important things... I'm not sure when I can come back to this project, so for now, I've stopped the server to save on costs.

Next Steps:

• Create DOCS.md explaining how to build map tiles
• Cron Job each week to run a build with new OSM data
• Talk with @StrandedKitty about the current domain, deployment, future plans
• Go through the current open issues and do some feature requests and bug fixing 🐛 🔨

PR Changes:

• Adds dotenv to package.json
• Loads .env variables in webpack.config.js
• Updates src/app/Config.ts to use process.env for TileServerEndpoint and TilesEndpointTemplate

[MMK21Hub]

Hi @alexandargyurov! I've been finding your deployment at https://streets-gl.onrender.com/ very useful (thanks for hosting it!) but now the map data seems to be missing:

Is there anything we can do to get it back working again? I would love to see it kept alive.

[hb0nd]

Looks like the CA certificate for your site needs renewing (map files are being blocked by CORS) @alexandargyurov

(as a workaround for users, visit https://tiles.axlemaps.com/ and add an exception when asked - the tiles should load again)

[alexandargyurov]

Hi @MMK21Hub thanks for pointing this out. Good catch with the CA certificate @hb0nd! Unfortunately, yesterday I had to stop the tile server to save costs. I was hoping I would have more time to work on this project, however, I can't commit to this for now. Last I heard, @Dumopolis managed to get a local instance running of the tile server.