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Spatialists<p>Serving vector tiles, fast: Want to serve <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/VectorTiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VectorTiles</span></a> to your users? Fabian Rechsteiner’s benchmark pits six open-source servers (<a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/BBOX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBOX</span></a>, <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/ldproxy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ldproxy</span></a>, <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/Martin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Martin</span></a>, <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/pg_tileserv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pg_tileserv</span></a>, <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/Tegola" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tegola</span></a>, <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/TiPg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TiPg</span></a>) against each other, revealing stark speed differences. <br><a href="https://spatialists.ch/posts/2025/04-05-serving-vector-tiles-fast/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">spatialists.ch/posts/2025/04-0</span><span class="invisible">5-serving-vector-tiles-fast/</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/GISchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GISchat</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/geospatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geospatial</span></a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/SwissGIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SwissGIS</span></a></p>
Joana Simoes<p>For anyone interested in rendering vector tiles from a <a href="https://noc.social/tags/PostGIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PostGIS</span></a> table; in my tests <a href="https://noc.social/tags/martin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>martin</span></a> was about 50% faster than <a href="https://noc.social/tags/pg_tileserv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pg_tileserv</span></a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/benchmarking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>benchmarking</span></a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/tiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tiles</span></a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/postgres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postgres</span></a></p>
Lewis Westbury 💛💙🌱<p>🎉 A configurable, dockerised, simple map server with scripts to import and filter data from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenStreetMap</span></a>...</p><p>🗺️ <a href="https://github.com/instantiator/world-server" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/instantiator/world-</span><span class="invisible">server</span></a></p><p>🧭 This repository contains scripts to launch a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/postgis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postgis</span></a> geo database and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pg_tileserv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pg_tileserv</span></a> tile server in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Docker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Docker</span></a> containers, and to fetch and import data from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSM</span></a>.</p><p>📍 You can configure it to use any data source, and modify the filter script to determine what sort of places to import.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/postgres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>postgres</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lua" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lua</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scripts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geography</span></a></p>
Joana Simoes<p>Now you can publish OGC API Tiles with <a href="https://noc.social/tags/pygeoapi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pygeoapi</span></a> using: <a href="https://noc.social/tags/elasticsearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elasticsearch</span></a>, <a href="https://noc.social/tags/pg_tileserv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pg_tileserv</span></a>, mapbox tiles in disk, or other formats you like 😀 <a href="https://noc.social/tags/OGCAPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OGCAPI</span></a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/CODESPRINT19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CODESPRINT19</span></a> There is no excuse anymore. for not being <a href="https://noc.social/tags/OGC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OGC</span></a> compliant, while using vector tiles!</p>
Joana Simoes<p>I could not resist trying the new functionality from <a href="https://noc.social/tags/pygeoapi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pygeoapi</span></a> that gives support to a generic template, with <a href="https://noc.social/tags/pg_tileserv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pg_tileserv</span></a> : it works! 👏 <a href="https://noc.social/tags/OGCAPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OGCAPI</span></a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/standards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>standards</span></a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/tiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tiles</span></a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/CODESPRINT19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CODESPRINT19</span></a></p>