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		e1gen-v 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to build vector tiles from scratch I actually did this at work! Set up a fast api with a tile server endpoint and it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.

ajd555 5 months ago [–]

Awesome, good job! Did you implement likes and polygons too?

e1gen-v 5 months ago | [–]

Yes but I actually didn’t end up building any of the tile logic in python. I used PostGIS and Postgres. Each query is like 25 lines and supports polys and lines out the box.

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