SpatialistsMar 5
Beyond the Buzz: Cloud-native geo: #CloudNativeGeo is everywhere, but does it live up to the hype? Lukas Merz takes a sharp look at formats like #COG, #FlatGeoBuf, #GeoParquet, and #PMTiles, and helps you decide when #cloudnative is the right tool for the job.
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/02/25-beyond-the-buzz-cloud-native-geo/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS
Beyond the Buzz: Cloud-native geo – Spatialists – geospatial news

#CloudNativeGeo is everywhere, but does it live up to the hype? Lukas Merz takes a sharp look at formats like #COG, #FlatGeoBuf, #GeoParquet, and #PMTiles, and helps you decide when #cloudnative is the right tool for the job.

Spatialists – geospatial news
SpatialistsFeb 25
Beyond the Buzz: Cloud-native geo: #CloudNativeGeo is everywhere, but does it live up to the hype? Lukas Merz takes a sharp look at formats like #COG, #FlatGeoBuf, #GeoParquet, and #PMTiles, and helps you decide when #cloudnative is the right tool for the job.
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/02/25-beyond-the-buzz-cloud-native-geo/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS
Beyond the Buzz: Cloud-native geo – Spatialists – geospatial news

#CloudNativeGeo is everywhere, but does it live up to the hype? Lukas Merz takes a sharp look at formats like #COG, #FlatGeoBuf, #GeoParquet, and #PMTiles, and helps you decide when #cloudnative is the right tool for the job.

Spatialists – geospatial news
Martijn van ExelFeb 21

Doing some #planetiler #OSM benchmarking, as one does on a Saturday morning. Seems that it's happiewt when you give it about 3x the heap memory relative to the input PBF, any less and it starts flushing the node cache to disk severely impacting performance. Does that match your experience?

This is for a 500MB pbf file converting to #PMTiles using the default profile.

SpatialistsFeb 20
OMF STAC inluding pmtiles: The #Overture Maps Foundation (#OMF) has released a #STAC for its data themes – including addresses, buildings, places, and transportation – available as #cloudnative #GeoParquet and #PMTile files via AWS and Azure. The #PMTiles are ready-to-use,...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/02/20-omf-stac-inluding-pmtiles/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS
OMF STAC inluding pmtiles – Spatialists – geospatial news

The #Overture Maps Foundation (#OMF) has released a #STAC for its data themes – including addresses, buildings, places, and transportation – available as #cloudnative #GeoParquet and #PMTile files via AWS and Azure. The #PMTiles are ready-to-use, e.g. to easily preview in Protomaps for quick exploration.

Spatialists – geospatial news
Bogdan BuduroiuFeb 13

Used #Protomaps and #PMTiles today to generate some high quality wallpapers from city maps. Kinda wanna open source this tool but thinking about packaging and UX

#maps #Taiwan #taipei

SpatialistsJan 25
Vectormap: Swiss vector maps: Building on his Master’s thesis, Fabian Rechsteiner launched #Vectormap, a project focused on making Swiss #geodata accessible as modern, high-performance #vectormaps. With regularly updated #cadastraldata and ready-to-use styles in #PMTiles format, Vectormap explores pragmatic, #cloudnative ways to bring geodata to the web. #GIS #geospatial #SwissGIS
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2026/01/25-vectormap-swiss-vector-maps/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS
Vectormap: Swiss vector maps – Spatialists – geospatial news

Building on his Master’s thesis, Fabian Rechsteiner launched Vectormap, a project focused on making Swiss #geodata accessible as modern, high-performance #vectormaps. With regularly updated #cadastraldata and ready-to-use styles in #PMTiles format, Vectormap explores pragmatic, #cloudnative ways to bring geodata to the web.

Spatialists – geospatial news
Jeff AllenJan 16

made a quick interactive map of building heights in toronto (2025 data)

big fan of tippecanoe->pmtiles->maplibre->github pages workflow, can pretty easily take a ~300mb .shp like this and render it all in-browser (no fancy db, server, or saas hosting)

https://schoolofcities.github.io/toronto-buildings/heights-2025

#maps #toronto #gis #maplibre #pmtiles

Adam CoxOct 8
Looking more into @jacob and @maprva 's usage of #pmtiles @protomaps for Sanborn map mosaics, and it's pretty fantastic... Huge disk space savings compared to COGs, and I'm assuming it's because empty tiles in PMTiles take up less space (0 space) than in COGs. Ideal for non-continuous coverage. @bdon does that sound right?
SpatialistsSep 24, 2025
Basemapkit: Basemaps for Maplibre: #Basemapkit is a new open-source library by Jonathan Lurie that provides customizable basemap styles for use with #Maplibre GL JS and #Protomaps #OSM #pmtiles. Its core style, avenue, is designed as a practical “one-size-fits-all” basemap, with...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/09/12-basemapkit-basemaps-for-maplibre/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS
Basemapkit: Basemaps for Maplibre – Spatialists – geospatial news

#Basemapkit is a new open-source library by Jonathan Lurie that provides customizable basemap styles for use with #Maplibre GL JS and #Protomaps #OSM #pmtiles. Its core style, avenue, is designed as a practical “one-size-fits-all” basemap, with optional relief shading for flexible cartographic use.

Spatialists – geospatial news
SpatialistsSep 12, 2025
Basemapkit: Basemaps for Maplibre: #Basemapkit is a new open-source library by Jonathan Lurie that provides customizable basemap styles for use with #Maplibre GL JS and #Protomaps #OSM #pmtiles. Its core style, avenue, is designed as a practical “one-size-fits-all” basemap, with...
https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/09/12-basemapkit-basemaps-for-maplibre/ #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS
Basemapkit: Basemaps for Maplibre – Spatialists – geospatial news

#Basemapkit is a new open-source library by Jonathan Lurie that provides customizable basemap styles for use with #Maplibre GL JS and #Protomaps #OSM #pmtiles. Its core style, avenue, is designed as a practical “one-size-fits-all” basemap, with optional relief shading for flexible cartographic use.

Spatialists – geospatial news