Hecate Project Clarification about hecate HOT 1 OPEN

Hey @lhorus Good question, Hecate isn't tied to, or primarily designed to work or interact with OSM data. It is designed in response to the need for a Modern, Open-Source competitor to the underlying server infrastructure that OSM runs on - The Rails Server.

Folks are increasingly starting their own crowd-sourced geospatial projects that would not fit into the type of data that OSM is looking for, IE:

• You and a group of friends are collecting and editing rivers where you want to go whitewater kayaking
• You are a county and want to have a central place to store & edit Civic Addresses, building polygons, or street centrelines
• You are an NGO doing on-the-ground field surveys for infectious disease & vaccination

These folks currently don't have a straightforward option for managing and hosting their data. This is the void that Hecate aims to fill. As a one liner - "Hecate is a geospatial storage engine". It's not designed to compete with, or replace any of Mapbox's current commercial offerings.

If you primary goal is to edit & manage data, you should investigate using Hecate, however if your goal is to create & serve Mapbox Vector Tiles, you should checkout Mapbox products like Studio, & Mapbox-GL (They have a very generous free plan!), or an Open-Source offering like T-Rex, maintained by the very talented @pka.

Hope this helps clarify the project & happy to answer any questions!

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