I didn't realise open street map had made so much progress, the demo page looks really nice. The satellite view is not very detailed where I was checking but other than that I'm very impressed with the offering.
Unfortunately I bought a license for MapTiler and then I lost it when I reinstalled my pc. They preferred to do email ping-pong instead of giving me my license back. Apparently you have to "release" the license before reinstalling the pc. Because this is what you have to put up with if you try to be fair and actually pay for software...
I can vouch for their MapTiler Engine product. I consulted with a company that used it to create map tiles of mosaicked images captured by drones. MapTiler Engine worked great. Not cheap, but in our eyes, it definitely was worth the price. Thumbs up for MapTiler.
It's a pretty nice piece of software. Unfortunately the affordable version is far too restricted and the 'useful' version is stupidly expensive. Had it been less than $1000 I probably would have bought a license.
Very cool, I recently wrote a map tiler that runs on AWS lambda and supports real-time tiling at any zoom level and real-time reprojection. Planning to open source it soon.
I used MapTiler to generate a graph of the largest connected nodes on the Disqus network: <a href="http://webrender.net/disqus-universe/" rel="nofollow">http://webrender.net/disqus-universe/</a><p>Found it fast and easy to use. Couldn't believe how difficult it would have been to render the tiles otherwise.
I’ve used one of their mobile apps to overlay a hiking map on the satellite map and (iirc) cache the tiles in the area. Very useful to have gps positioning on a map that may only be available on paper, pdf, etc.