[bransonf]

Oh, I meant more about data analysis. Typically you don’t import raster tiles unless we’re talking about imagery.

But as far as like roads and boundaries, you should always work with the raw vectors.

[kylebarron]

This isn't _necessarily_ true, doing data analysis on vector tiles allow for high parallelization. See TileReduce [0]

[0]: https://github.com/mapbox/tile-reduce

[bransonf]

I meant specifically raster tiles, but this is indeed very cool. I absolutely love what MapBox is doing.