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Anthony Sorace

@scy @delan This looks like a neat project, but I’m unclear of the benefits if I’m not using S3 &c. 100% agree on not wanting a database, but is there a benefit if this approach I’m missing over separate vector files if I’m not concerned about S3 costs?

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Daniel

@a @scy @delan vector files in .mbtiles format are sqlite files. You need to run a server to respond with vector tile data to the client.

The protomaps .pmtiles file instead is a single static file you can drop on any hoster and be done with it, no server required other than a static host.

You can put a .pmtiles file e.g. of a city on Github pages and serve it from there alongside your map 😍

Anthony Sorace

@djh @scy @delan Sure, but isn’t that specific to their format? Granted I have much more experience with raster tiles, but can’t you serve, say, GeoJSON as static files?

Daniel

@a @scy @delan Sure but GeoJSON is not simplified based on zoom levels, is a text/string based format, and so on.

For smaller datasets GeoJSON is perfect but at some point (heh) you need to move to optimized vector tiles.

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