Comment on Immich relies on a third-party service that seems shady to me
pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr 1 month agoThanks for the detailed feedback. According to one Immich dev, they used to use OSM’s raster tile provider but switched away from it since they were causing too much load on OSM’s servers.
There does not seem to be any non-commercial vector-tile provider at the moment (though OSM seems to be currently working on it), and it seems really overkill to try and self-host a tile provider (at least with the default level of details). Maybe the way is to find a balanced level of details that makes it reasonable to self host
dan@upvote.au 1 month ago
They could host their own OSM servers though, or at least a caching proxy.
xantoxis@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Home assistant’s main use case is showing you where your house is on a single map, though. Not sure how immich works, but if it’s one tile per photo with location data, that would be a MUCH bigger ask.
dan@upvote.au 1 month ago
Oh yeah, that’s a good catch. Hosting their own proxy/CDN in front of OSM should be doable though.
pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr 1 month ago
Or you can quite easily configure nginx as your personal caching proxy with an arbitrarily long TTL/retention duration (you can check out my follow-up post for instructions on doing that)
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 month ago
I can see that as a paid premium feature. There are costs to host anything.