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But tiles don't need to be spatially indexed — they're offsets on a 2D plane in a Mercator projection. I've only worked with bitmap tiles, but it's my understan
by atombender 6y ago
But tiles don't need to be spatially indexed — they're offsets on a 2D plane in a Mercator projection. I've only worked with bitmap tiles, but it's my understanding that vector tiles use the same system. So all you need is fast (x, y) lookup.
- PeterCorless 6y agoYou'd have to look more at the design of PostGIS: https://postgis.net/ https://postgis.net/
- atombender 6y agoI've used PostGIS extensively. You don't need PostGIS to serve tiles unless you're deriving the tile data from a relational database and need to convert the tile coordinates to geographic coordinates.