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Dynamic vector tiles

3 posts

  1. 2 min read

    Where to put a polygon's label

    Centroid, point on surface, or a point you already store. How MapSocket generates label points for polygon layers, and when to pick each one.

  2. 2 min read

    The tile bug that only browsers could see

    Our tile proxy served perfect tiles to curl and broken ones to MapLibre. The cause was a gzip header that outlived its body.

  3. 2 min read

    Dynamic vector tiles straight from PostGIS

    Why we built MapSocket, and how a row change in your database becomes a fresh tile on every open map within seconds.