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> Existing formats like MBTiles are based on SQLite. This limits the ability to self-host maps to those confident running a server in production. Is that comical, or is there a deeper meaning I don't understand?
I read it as: existing solutions are too hard for simple people with less technical skill.
> Existing formats like MBTiles are based on SQLite. This limits the ability to self-host maps to those confident running a server in production. Is that comical, or is there a deeper meaning I don't understand?
> Existing formats like MBTiles are based on SQLite. This limits the ability to self-host maps to those confident running a server in production. Is that comical, or is there a deeper meaning I don't understand?
AFAIU MBTiles still need some application server to transform x/y/z into proper tiles to be served, which means provisioning a server, scaling it, maintaning it, and all the fun that comes with it; PMTiles is a simple blob that the frontend will download (only desired parts) and render directly in the browser.
Super excited for your project. I have been using map tiles from Mapbox, MapTiler, OSM Buildings for my project and am coming to the point that I need to merge elevation data with building height data in order to cast realistic shadows across the earth. Unfortunately elevation data and building data come from two different tile sets from two different tile providers and it's a lot of download/processing overhead to m…
You can already host vector tiles within S3 that work with Mapbox and other libraries. Not really sure what problem this is trying to solve.
Is this a simple process? Can you share a link to how this is done, I'm interested. I always assumed it was fairly complicated.
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You can already host vector tiles within S3 that work with Mapbox and other libraries. Not really sure what problem this is trying to solve.
Is this a simple process? Can you share a link to how this is done, I'm interested. I always assumed it was fairly complicated.
Super excited for your project. I have been using map tiles from Mapbox, MapTiler, OSM Buildings for my project and am coming to the point that I need to merge elevation data with building height data in order to cast realistic shadows across the earth. Unfortunately elevation data and building data come from two different tile sets from two different tile providers and it's a lot of download/processing overhead to m…
I’ve had success using tippecanoe to generate mvt tiles from geojson sources, which in turn came from various sources (osm and otherwise) from QGIS. I didn’t look into this project too much but it appears to be bundling mvt tiles into a single file? Either way, straight up mvt tiles are easy to generate and can be easily hosted statically on any web server/s3 bucket/cdn.
One of the main challenges when entering a highly specialised field is finding the vocabulary to express yourself.
Super excited for your project. I have been using map tiles from Mapbox, MapTiler, OSM Buildings for my project and am coming to the point that I need to merge elevation data with building height data in order to cast realistic shadows across the earth. Unfortunately elevation data and building data come from two different tile sets from two different tile providers and it's a lot of download/processing overhead to m…
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I’ve had success using tippecanoe to generate mvt tiles from geojson sources, which in turn came from various sources (osm and otherwise) from QGIS. I didn’t look into this project too much but it appears to be bundling mvt tiles into a single file? Either way, straight up mvt tiles are easy to generate and can be easily hosted statically on any web server/s3 bucket/cdn.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Much of this vocabulary is still foreign to me but you've given me some the relevant keywords to Google. One of the main challenges when entering a highly specialised field is finding the vocabulary to express yourself.
[0]: https://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/mapbox-layer.html
You can already host vector tiles within S3 that work with Mapbox and other libraries. Not really sure what problem this is trying to solve.
The problem with this is it still requires a running server process colocated with that sqlite db in order to service requests for individual tiles, like what you'll receive from a client-side mapping library.
This project has a lot of different parts, but one of them is a spec for serving this type of data at low latency without a server by combining a custom packing format with S3 range-get requests to read individual tiles direct from blob storage. So that is certainly interesting for this kind of use-case.