PMTiles is absurdly great software.

hyperbolablabla an hour ago | parent | next [-]

My only gripe is that the tile metadata is stored as JSON, which I get is for compatibility reasons with existing software, but for e.g. a simple C program to implement the full spec you need to ship a JSON parser on top of the PMTiles parser itself.

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Humphrey 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I know right! I'd never heard of HTTP Range requests until PMTiles - but gee it's an elegant solution.

	▲	keepamovin 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Hadn't seen PMTiles before, but that matches the mental model exactly! I chose physical file sharding over Range Requests on a single db because it felt safer for 'dumb' static hosts like CF. - less risk of a single 22GB file getting stuck or cached weirdly. Maybe it would work