This is another in a series of articles about map tile hosting. Pinball Map has now been around for like 16 years, and so has tried a few things. I think the overall rundown is: Google Maps, Mapbox, Maplibre using self-hosted mbtiles from OpenMapTiles, then back to Mapbox, and now self-hosted pmtiles from Protomaps. This post is about our experience switching from Mapbox to Protomaps. It covers the overall steps for self-hosting on Cloudflare, and our first month’s bill (it was very small).

Live to blog, blog to live. That’s what we sometimes say, especially when we remember to blog a blog.

It’s always risky to publish a blog post on April 1. Especially a serious one. And I can assure you, with the utmost sincerity, that this is a serious post. You can’t joke about RSS.

After four years of silence, we have something to say. The mics have been feather dusted. Audacity has been updated. Episode 8 of our podcast, Mappin’ Around w/ Scott & Ryan, is in the bank. Additional episodes are in the planning stages.

In order to reflect back on 2023, we must gaze upon it in a mirror. What is reflected back? Mostly ourselves, since ourselves is what usually shows up in mirrors. Which maybe means that we - and you, too - are 2023.