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Re:Serverless maps at 1/700 the cost of Google Maps API by winbat on Friday March 10, 2023 @03:19AM (#35091879)
If you have any geospatial data, you can tile it with tippecanoe [0], which gives you an mbtiles file. Protomaps lets you easily convert the mbtiles file into a protomaps file which you can then use.

Protomaps doesn’t limit you to any particular type of tiles, it’s just a format which allows you to read tiles out of a single file with HTTP range requests.

[0] https://github.com/mapbox/tippecanoe

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Re:Serverless maps at 1/700 the cost of Google Maps API by bdon on Friday March 10, 2023 @03:36AM (#35092015)
Hi, thanks for the mention!

The Mapbox repo has an older version of tippecanoe; there's a newer version actively being improved by Felt at http://github.com/felt/tippecanoe , and they've also funded my addition of the Protomaps format (PMTiles) as a direct output. No conversion step required anymore!

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