Going to NICAR this year? Check out the session "First PMTiles map" by @palewire@mastodon.palewi.re :
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people kept asking for pmtiles merge, now there is pmtiles merge, inevitably they will ask why it refuses to work for overlapping inputs, here is why merging tilesets is hard (blog post):
new pmtiles CLI feature (the most requested one)
pmtiles merge input input output
https://docs.protomaps.com/pmtiles/cli#merge
download new version here:
https://github.com/protomaps/go-pmtiles/releases/tag/v1.29.1
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New blog post on @mapterhorn@mastodon.social - terrain for web mapping
Added a section to the Cloud Storage Docs on Bunny.net, an EU-headquartered CDN and storage platform
https://docs.protomaps.com/pmtiles/cloud-storage#bunny-net
(tip: it isn't S3-compatible so you can use curl instead)
(How) do computer maps make money?