A File Can Replace Your Tile Server: The Engineering Behind PMTiles
How PMTiles moves map delivery into an indexed archive, what HTTP range requests actually buy you, and where caching, updates, and analytical queries still need engineering.
Posts tagged with "geospatial"
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Fast Spatial Queries Without Losing Correctness
How bounding boxes, R-trees, and exact predicates work together, why H3 boundary behavior matters, and how to measure a spatial optimization without quietly changing its answer.
Stop Reading the Whole Dataset: GeoParquet, Spatial Locality, and Query Pruning
Why identical geospatial records can produce different query costs, how GeoParquet and spatial ordering help readers skip work, and how to verify that pruning actually happened.