To build an application with an #interactivemap, you pick a tile provider such as #Google or #Mapbox, or a self-hosted stack like #GeoServer or #Martin, and your frontend requests thousands of small image or vector tiles as the user interacts with the map. A server processes each request: it reads from a database, renders the tile, and sends it back.
Stefano Fago asked himself if a different approach was possible. He found #PMTiles that removes the tile server.
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