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Display JPEG historical map tiles in Mapbox

Mapbox is a great tool for visualizing maps especially when you have multiple layers and would like to compare them at the same location. In my case, I have millions of small tiles in jpeg format, and I would like to overlay those tiles on OSM map. Those map tiles are generated from a neural network by taking OSM tiles as input and the resulting tiles are close to historical style.

January 2, 2021 Read
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Experience with Mapnik

For some reason, I needed to use mapnik to render the .osm file into tiles (png format), and I started my long journey with mapnik. The task is to render the text label layer only, without any background geographical features. Things started off smoothly. I found python already have pip installation for mapnik so I simply typed pip install mapnik to install it on my machine. I followed the tutorial here and successfully reproduced the output.

September 5, 2020 Read