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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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The Future of Web Cartography

PM tiles as a format is working as functioning. It's well known. We have support with these different clients. What I'd like to see is a lot more diversity in cartography on the web because if we're able to commoditize the sort of serving of any kind of geo data, then that means there should be an explosion of possibility for what kinds of maps could be made. And when I think about the users of maps, who uses spatial data, who needs to navigate the world, I think that we're really comfortable with the idea that they are an abstraction from the real world. So it'll be really interesting to see where this goes.

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