Re:A new way to make maps with OpenStreetMap
by incanus77 on Friday April 23, 2021 @11:45PM
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That was the impetus behind MBTiles as well. I was building out an iOS toolkit to render OSM-based maps on iPad, offline, and transferring 1000s of rasters (at the time) even over USB was way too slow and error-prone.
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Re:A new way to make maps with OpenStreetMap
by TheTaytay on Friday April 23, 2021 @11:59PM
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Oh wow - very cool. Thanks for this! I love SQLite, and think this is an excellent use case. (File systems, especially networked ones, don’t handle “lots of tiny files” well). I think using SQLite as the primary, writeable storage mechanism makes sense because I could ship that around easily to rendering nodes and incrementally update it easily. Then, I could export to a static PMTile for upload to S3 for serving purposes.