This could use an upgrade. Combining teslausb [1] for video retrieval and teslamate [2] for GPX retrieval, you could probably make this an automatic pipeline. Add in some "excluded locations" and I could see this as a full solution.
That's great and wasn't clear at all from the article. The engineering challenge behind that is very much worth a post on its own. Must've been no small feat!
I've tried that, but the openmaptiles spec and protomaps spec just don't provide enough details to be able to display a detailed map like the OSM raster tiles.
That's not to say that maputnik isn't great; it is! It's an awesome frontend to the complex style files.
I'm a bit conflicted with vector tiles. I haven't found a good combination of style and tile generator (schema) that provides the same level of detail as the original raster tiles provide.
The article has screenshots that very much demonstrate this difference. The first screenshot has, for example, a lot of POIs (statues, shops, theaters, viewpoints), highways that are different when they are bridges, different colors for grass vs parks, different line widths for different highways, sports fields, building and neighbourhood names, arrows denoting one-way streets, building parts, stairs, trees, and a lot more.
The second screenshot has none of that, aside from a single trolly station and a single street name (which is also rendered incorrectly).
I've tried a lot of vector styles (all openmaptiles styles, the base protomaps styles, all mapbox styles) and generators (protomaps, openmaptiles, mapbox). None of them come close to the amount of detail as the raster OSM tiles while still being as readable.
I've never found anyone as bothered with this as I am. Vector styles are cool as they zoom and pan very smoothly, and their style is fairly easily editable. But, for any map where you actually want to see map data instead of using it as a base map for your own data, vector maps fall short.
Maybe it is just because of computational limits. I can imagine that displaying the same amount of detail as the OSM raster tiles would require too many resources: both on the client side and for tile generation.
It would be nice if OpenStreetMap would try to mimic their raster style closer, instead of providing just another low contrast, low detail base map. I hope this release of open vector tiles will facilitate more detailed vector maps!
Look into Planetiler [1] (which OP uses for tile generation). It supports downloading regions that are listed on Geofabrik [2] and converting them to mbtiles or pmtiles. Geofabrik has separate extracts for all US states, for example. If you need to extract an even smaller area from that result, GDAL has support for mbtiles so you could use gdalwarp [3] to extract a new mbtiles file out of it using bounds.
Another option is to use the extract functionality in pmtiles [4] to extract your area of interest from their daily full-planet pmtiles builds. You can then statically host that file and use that in your client with one of their client libraries.
Look into Planetiler [1]. It's a resource-efficient and easy to setup project to generate mbtiles or pmtiles from OSM pbf files, which are free to download from Geofabrik. It uses the openmaptiles spec for the result files and you can also generate some custom tiles by writing yaml (or forking the java source).
Protomaps also provides daily updated full-planet pmtiles [2], from which you can create a pmtiles extract using its CLI.
We played infinite variations of this game when I was a member or leader at our youth movement in Belgium. (I don't think such a thing exists in the US?)
Some examples:
A battleship variant: each team first their his ships in a battleship field. Then, when a player can reach the other team's camp without getting tagged, they can shoot one shot into the field of the other team.
A Stratego variant: every team gets his own stack of cards which represent the different players of Stratego, the board game. Players take a card before leaving their camp. If they are tagged, or tag someone, they show their card to the other person. The winner according to the Stratego rules wins the card of the other person, and the loser must go back to their camp for another card.
[1] https://github.com/marcone/teslausb
[2] https://github.com/teslamate-org/teslamate