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Re:Farewell, Google Maps by linsomniac on Thursday July 19, 2018 @06:30PM (#17570906)
Tile generation wasn't THAT bad. We only cover Colorado and Wyoming, and generating the tiles for those at the zoom levels 5-18 takes around 7 hours to pre-render (using "render_list_geo.pl"). The end result is around 25GB of rendered meta-tiles.

Much better than the NAIP aerial imagery, which takes around 3TB for the source data, 280GB for the resulting tiles, and around a full day to generate.

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Re:Farewell, Google Maps by spapas82 on Friday July 20, 2018 @03:13AM (#17573068)
Yes it wasn't bad for a single area (we cover only Greece and it was quick and easy for such a small country). However I couldn't imagine of the resources needed to cover the whole world!
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Re:Farewell, Google Maps by linsomniac on Thursday July 19, 2018 @06:30PM (#17570911)
Oh, and we are using the mapbox.js viewer rather than leaflet.
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Re:Farewell, Google Maps by vinnieman232 on Friday July 20, 2018 @01:50AM (#17572793)
Mapbox.js is a leaflet extension to make it easier to use Leaflet with Mapbox services. So you're using both!
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