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Support material for establishing the GBIF Hosted Portals
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More basemaps #229

Closed MortenHofft closed 2 years ago

MortenHofft commented 2 years ago

GBIF process data from OSM and reproject that data into 4 projections: Mercator, Plate Caree, Antarctic and Arctic.

GBIF do not host satellite images, or terrain data. But it is possible to add such data from other vendors.

maptiler is a nice service that provides free maps as long as you use less than 100.000 requests a month (according to https://www.maptiler.com/cloud/pricing/). After that you will be blocked and the maps wont show until next month. You do not need a credit card. I suspect that is enough tiles for most sites, but I cannot say for sure.

Currently the interface look like below and once you register your code will appear at https://cloud.maptiler.com/account/keys/

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MortenHofft commented 2 years ago

See also See https://hp-theme.gbif-staging.org/data-exploration-config#map-options

MortenHofft commented 1 year ago

Similarly you can add a mapbox key, but you need to register with mapbox to get one. They are free up to a certain number of monthly pageviews.