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We still need Raster tiles... then, chiitiler!
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2026-09-01 –, Dahlia1

MapboxVectorTiles have changed the geospatial ecosystem. Vector data distribution has become more efficient, map rendering has moved from server-side to client-side, map styling has become more common. But does that mean we no longer need raster tiles? No. Raster tiles still matter.

Abstract

MapboxVectorTiles have changed the geospatial ecosystem. Vector data distribution has become more efficient, map rendering has moved from server-side to client-side, map styling has become more common. But does that mean we no longer need raster tiles? No. Raster tiles still matter.

Outline

  1. Introduction
  2. What vector-tiles changed
  3. Why raster-tiles still matter
  4. Raster Tile server
  5. chiitiler - A serverless oriented raster tile server

References

Level of technical complexity: 2 - intermediate Give indication of resources (video, web pages, papers, etc.) to read in advance, that will help get up to speed on advanced topics.:

https://dev.to/mug-jp/introduction-to-chiitiler-serverless-raster-tile-server-hmm

Indicate what is (are) the open source project(s) essential in your talk:

https://github.com/Kanahiro/chiitiler

I make my conference contribution available under the CC BY 4.0 license. The conference contribution comprises the abstract, the text contribution for the conference proceedings, the presentation materials as well as the video recording and live transmission of the presentation:
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Kanahiro Iguchi

https://github.com/Kanahiro
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kanahiro-iguchi/

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