# Maps - Again

**URL:** <https://forum.xojo.com/t/maps-again/51467>\
**Category:** iOS\
**Created:** [December 6, 2019, 2:02am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/maps-again/51467 "2019-12-06T02:02:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Chris\_Halford](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/chris_halford/32/480_2.png) [@Chris\_Halford](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Chris_Halford)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 2:02am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/maps-again/51467/1 "2019-12-06T02:02:35Z")

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I asked about this 2 years ago, and didn’t get great options. Hopeful that things have changed.

I’d like to implement maps right in my iOS app. I know Google gets costly.  
Alternately I can do a show url, but only if I’m able to show a route that I define.

Has anyone done anything like this?

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**Author:** ![MarkusR](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/markusr/32/685_2.png) [@MarkusR](https://forum.xojo.com/u/MarkusR)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 7:12am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/maps-again/51467/2 "2019-12-06T07:12:45Z")

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have some insteresting links for self hosting on a vps.  
[https://openmaptiles.com/](https://openmaptiles.com/)

[/wiki/Open\_Source\_Routing\_Machine](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Source_Routing_Machine)

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**Author:** ![Chris\_Halford](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/chris_halford/32/480_2.png) [@Chris\_Halford](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Chris_Halford)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 11:16am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/maps-again/51467/3 "2019-12-06T11:16:59Z")

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I can’t afford OpenMapTiles, but the only link references Openstreetmaps which is very interesting.  
Based on this, I’m trying to figure out how to just get a static map of a small region. I can overlay my own GPS data easily enough.

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Allmendinger](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/c0e974/32.png) [@Richard\_Allmendinger](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Richard_Allmendinger)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 6:46pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/maps-again/51467/4 "2019-12-06T18:46:12Z")

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If you are interested in map tiles in general, the following page has some open source python code to handle the treatment of map tiles:

[maptiler python code](https://www.maptiler.com/google-maps-coordinates-tile-bounds-projection/)

I have used this in an app that uses mbtiles offline.

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum.xojo.com/uploads/default/original/1X/455b4dcc0e61630e9f81940004ddffa49c432a46.png) [@system](https://forum.xojo.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/maps-again/51467/5 "2021-04-29T16:12:21Z")

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