Tracestrack is a sole proprietorship (eenmanszaak) registered in the Netherlands. Its focus is openstreetmap based raster tile hosting. Currently we support three categories of map layers:
Tracestrack Carto style is forked from openstreetmap-carto on Jan 12, 2021. Following is a main list of changes:
Tracestrack Topo style is a hybrid of Carto and OpenTopoMap. It uses the same SRTM data to generate hillshades and countours, which lie on top of the Carto style background.
Currently, Tracestrack has four high performance rendering servers and three caching
edge servers. Following gives a rough DNS config:
Most of the tiles are prerendered. With limited resources, it is difficult to keep an up-to-date map repository in short period of time, like OpenStreetMap.org does.
Our strategy is to rerender only recently-accessed areas. We distinguish active and inactive areas. Active areas are rerendered approximately every 14 days. Inactive areas are rerendered in longer period, for example one month to six months.
We love to make our map style meet users' needs. If you want to render new tags or update current styles, let us know by mentioning @tracestrack on Twitter, or send us an email at info(at)tracestrack.com.
The source code of Tracestrack Carto style is not open. We plan to make it open source in certain moment in future.
We take issues and pull requests from openstreetmap-carto as sources to improve the maps. Following is a list of issues and PRs that influenced Tracestrack Carto style: