maper 1.0.0-alpha1

First public release of Maper: every map at its best zoom, plus the surrounding area, drawn on the server from vector tiles the site holds.

What is in it

• The core module: map types, map styles (light, dark, pearl), the Maper map block, the Maper locator field formatter, the Maper map Views style, place cards, "Open with" buttons, the zoom slider, and the JSON payload (schema 1) with its frame endpoint.
• Maper: OpenFreeMap: fetches OpenMapTiles vector tiles once each, into private storage, behind a gate (contact required, budgets per job and per day, back-off, per-reader flood control).
• Maper: Protomaps: reads a PMTiles extract in place; fetches nothing.
• Maper: Nominatim (experimental): places nodes without coordinates. It ships switched off, with no instance set, and follows the public instance's usage policy.

Before you install

• Drupal 11.2+, PHP 8.3 (64-bit) with zlib, a private file system path.
• Vue 3.5.43 in /libraries/vue (composer require npm-asset/vue:3.5.43 via asset-packagist). Without it, the skin loads the same release from jsDelivr, checked against its hash, and the status report warns.
• Fetching is off by default. Set a contact on the Settings tab before turning cached live fetch on.

Upgrading

Alphas carry no upgrade path. Uninstall maper and its submodules, update, and install again. Settings, map types and map styles are reset. Held tiles stay in private://maper/, so nothing is fetched twice.

Known gaps, planned before beta

• The admin area is being regrouped into seven tabs, with tile deletion and a manual refetch of old tiles added to the Tile cache tab.
• More clean-install, no-JavaScript and accessibility coverage, and phpstan level 6.
• A held tile is kept until someone deletes it: tiles never expire by themselves, by design.

Credits

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Tiles from OpenFreeMap or Protomaps.