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by jimmyrocks 1301 days ago
I'm surprised I don't see more implementations caching and serving vector tiles. I know some (most?) large mapping companies do this.

I maintain a heavily used map of the US, and I found that storing data/serving in vector format seems to be the most efficient (on AWS s3 / DO spaces), and converting to raster in the browser or with a service call / lambda really opens the doors to a lot more use cases. I suspect parent can talk more about this than I can.