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Protomaps Blog

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Protomaps Blog, “Protomaps”, is a tech site on protomaps.com, in English, funded by its readers: 57 people pay through GitHub Sponsors, as the platform publishes it.

Protomaps: a free, customizable open source world map distributed as a single PMTiles file, with a hosted tile API.

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Latest posts

• New CLI feature: pmtiles merge2025-12-16
• Mapterhorn - Terrain for Web Mapping2025-09-02
• A Tour of the New pmtiles.io2025-05-15
• Covering the Planet with Compressed Bitmaps2025-01-27
• What is a basemap, anyway?2025-01-20
• Slicing OpenStreetMap Just Got Fresher2024-11-29
• PMTiles on More Platforms2024-10-28
• You Might Not Want PMTiles2024-05-22

From the site's feed, read 2026-10-21.

Pages

32 pages indexed; the pages that lead the site by its internal links:

Standing

Verified funding

• github_sponsors https://github.com/sponsors/protomapsverified 2026-08-16

Badge

For the site's owner: a badge that says readers fund it, linked to this page. It shows the live figure, so it never goes stale; the count is the one the platform publishes.

HTML

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Markdown

[![Reader-funded: 57 paying supporters on GitHub Sponsors, verified by ReaderFunded](https://readerfunded.com/badge/protomaps.com.svg)](https://readerfunded.com/site/protomaps.com)

Neighbourhood

Linked from 367 domains, links to 39; of the latter, the funded sites are shown. Funded sites first, then the sources that link to fewest other funded sites. Links as seen in the Common Crawl domain graph (cc-main-2026-aug-sep-oct), cut 2026-10-23: the pages crawled in a window of three months, not necessarily the site of today, and a page not crawled in that window leaves no link.

Similar funded sites

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