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:

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