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Serving vector tiles, fast: Want to serve #VectorTiles to your users? Fabian Rechsteiner’s benchmark pits six open-source servers (#BBOX, #ldproxy, #Martin, #pg_tileserv, #Tegola, #TiPg) against each other, revealing stark speed differences.
spatialists.ch/posts/2025/04-0 #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

spatialists.ch – geospatial newsServing vector tiles, fast – spatialists.ch – geospatial news
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Cool find when I looked for a way to geocode a U.S. address from only the street name/number and zip code. Thank you, U.S. Census Bureau, along with the open source tools lynx and grep.

#GIS

$ lynx -dump "geocoding.geo.census.gov/geoco" | grep Interpolate
Interpolated Longitude (X) Coordinates: -76.536330264398
Interpolated Latitude (Y) Coordinates: 39.34987287084

geocoding.geo.census.govCensus Geocoder

If you create, or are curious about, #VectorTiles, you may have come across the command line utility #Tippecanoe (TIP-ə-kə-NOO). It’s probably no secret that its usage is not entirely trivial, but there is a helpful tool for this now. spatialists.ch/posts/2025/04-0 #GIS #GISchat #geospatial #SwissGIS

spatialists.ch – geospatial newsTool tip: Tippecanoe Command Generator – spatialists.ch – geospatial news
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I think I already asked something similar a few weeks back, but isn't there a public site where I can fetch #Copernicus GLO-30 #DEM files with a simple http client anymore? I used to use `wget` for this, then it was AWS CLI, and now it seems I have to set it up with a user/pass/key/secret_key?

I remember cloning the whole mapzen repo when it was on peril of disappearing, should I have done the same with data that's supposed to be public? Has anyone done that already?