Cloud-optimized, single-file archive format for pyramids of map tiles

PMTiles is a single-file archive format for tiled data. A PMTiles archive can be hosted on a commodity storage platform such as S3, and enables low-cost, zero-maintenance map applications that are “serverless” – free of a custom tile backend or third party provider. Protomaps Blog: Dynamic Maps, Static Storage Leaflet + Raster Tiles Demo – watch your network request log MapLibre GL + Vector Tiles Demo – requires MapLibre GL JS v1.14.1-rc.2 or later See also: How To Use Go […]

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A toolkit for developing and deploying serverless Python code in AWS Lambda

Python-lambda Python-lambda is a toolset for developing and deploying serverless Python code in AWS Lambda. With python-lambda and pytube both continuing to gain momentum, I’m calling for contributors to help build out new features, review pull requests, fix bugs, and maintain overall code quality. If you’re interested, please email me at nficano[at]gmail.com. AWS Lambda is a service that allows you to write Python, Java, or Node.js code that gets executed in response to events like http requests or files uploaded […]

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