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

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Using Vactortile or Rastertile, You Care Less About the Geometry

Vactortile and rastertile are used for statistical analysis, not precise geometry. The problem is that we don't want to have to unify the data in such a way as with vactortile or raster tile. So when someone has to do such analytical tasks, a lot of time they need to aggregate data from raw data points into each cell. We always have to first convert the geometry into a unifived shape, and then draw the attributes.

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