Niro Map: Places Visualizer

Tech Stack Showcase

This project was built using:

• Frontend:
  • SvelteKit: For a reactive user interface.
  • Tailwind CSS: For utility-first styling.
  • Shadcn UI: For pre-built components and design consistency.
• Hosting:
  • Self-hosted on VPS where I have manage my projects in Kubernetes
• Backend
  • PostgreSQL self hosted on Kubernetes
• Analytics:
  • Plausible: For privacy-focused web analytics.

Project Description

Niro Map is a small weekend project: a simple map visualizer of popular places powered by Overture Maps Places. It lets you explore, filter and inspect points of interest on an interactive map or view a single place page. The dataset includes roughly 12 million places from around the world.

What you can do

• Explore places by category and country
• Inspect place details and source metadata
• Place a pinned area and search by radius
• Open a place in Google Maps from its location

Costs & notes

• Free to use for everyone
• Self-hosted on my VPS (database on ~1GB RAM)
• Domain ≈ $15/year, data sources are free/open
• Quick weekend proof-of-concept — some parts were implemented fast and may be flaky. Contact me if you find issues.