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I don't know about "20 tiles per session" That's like, 1 pan or 1 zoom. It might as well be a static map if the users don't actually interact with it.
by tantalor 4y ago
I don't know about "20 tiles per session"
That's like, 1 pan or 1 zoom. It might as well be a static map if the users don't actually interact with it.
- benburleson 4y agoI would be that's actually a majority of usage in the wild. Sometimes I'll zoom out if I need more context, but I'm not wandering around most embedded gmaps.
- tantalor 4y agoMy point was if that's truly the dominant use case then the map should be a static image initially and replaced with tiles lazily.
- bdon 4y agoIt is the dominant use case, and a static server-rendered image is more computationally expensive to generate than a tile-based system; a static image has effectively infinite variation in center, bounds and map scale, so requires dynamic computation from a server to send a JPEG/PNG. A tile-based system can just pre-generate a couple million tiles which is exactly the strategy Protomaps uses.