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Planet Scale Tiled Maps Without A Server

The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography

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Prote Maps - A Load Balancing Technology

The end goal is to produce a fast end user experience. So ideally, if your web map suddenly gets super popular, it is on the front page of all the geo blogs, then there's this huge spike in traffic. But you should not have to go rent more servers just for that one occasion. The big idea here is traditionally being able to create and also deploy a global base map has been the capability of very, very few companies in the world. That is like Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook recently have gotten into building their own base maps.

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