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Offline tiles and routing and geocoding in one Docker Compose stack

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External ID
46478061
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Offline tiles and routing and geocoding in one Docker Compose stack
Website domain
corviont.com
Launched
Jan. 3, 2026
Cohort
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Upvotes
102
Upvotes percentile
0.9018445322793149
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

Description

Hi HN,I’m building Corviont, a self-hosted offline maps appliance (tiles + routing + search) for edge/on-prem devices.Hosted demo (no install): https://demo.corviont.com/Self-host (Docker Compose repo): https://github.com/corviont/monaco-demoDocs: https://www.corviont.com/docsWhat’s inside: - Vector tiles served locally (PMTiles) - Routing served locally (Valhalla) - Offline geocoding/search + reverse (SQLite Nominatim-based index) - MapLibre UI wired to the local endpoints After the initial image + data pulls, it runs fully offline (no external map/routing/geocoding API calls).Next (if people need it): a signed on-device updater for regional datasets (verify → atomic swap → reload).I’d love feedback: where offline maps/routing/search matters for you, and what constraints bite (hardware, fleet size, update windows, regions, deployment style).

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Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
offline maps routing and geocoding in docker
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Could you build this?

Partial Packaging open-source mapping engines into Docker Compose is achievable, but building a production offline appliance requires processing and compressing multi-gigabyte spatial datasets (PBF tiles, OSRM/Valhalla graphs, Pelias/Nominatim indices).

What it would actually take: The stack combines vector tile servers (e.g., Martin or TileServer-GL), routing engines (OSRM, Valhalla, or GraphHopper), and search/geocoding (Pelias or Photon) orchestrated via Docker Compose. The hard part is building automated ETL pipelines to extract, compress, and pre-index OpenStreetMap extracts into memory-constrained containers suitable for edge devices without internet access.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Photon (geocoding/search), Nominatim (geocoding/address indexing), OSRM (routing), OpenTripPlanner (transit routing), Valhalla (routing)

Concerns raised: Hardware requirements not clearly documented, Memory/disk footprint vs alternatives unclear without benchmarks, Open-source licensing compliance with commercial sale model, Website appears hastily built/vibe-coded, Build pipeline complexity for custom regions

Feature requests: Bounding box builder to generate custom region packs, Support for local/self-hosted build process, Landmarks/POI display (mountains, viewpoints), House-number geocoding search, Pre-built packs for major cities (London, NYC, Bay Area)

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