First Basemap tutorial
last updated: Jan 05, 2026
https://palewi.re/docs/first-basemap/
A nice tutorial that walks you through using planetiler and PMTiles to create a custom basemap, and then MapLibre to display it.
It uses github actions to spin up a large EC2 instance for a few hours to create the map files, which it stores on s3. I had a couple of thoughts while reading it:
- I wish they'd used OIDC instead of access tokens, I could help spread knowledge of that flow
- It would be cool to modify the tutorial to do the work on a computer at my house via tailscale, like I do with NBA data