mod_mbtiles VS com-tiles

Here's a little bit of code I wrote that lets you host from a normal webserver, where that "normal webserver" is Apache: https://github.com/systemed/mod_mbtiles

This is great. Servers have been the weak link in the open mbtiles stack for a good while and an out-of-the-box recipe like this will make a real difference.

(For those running on bare metal, I knocked this up a few months ago - https://github.com/systemed/mod_mbtiles - which is an Apache module that does pretty much the same thing.)

This time I examined COMTiles(Cloud Optimized Map Tiles). COMTiles are often compared to PMTiles, but I have the impression that PMTiles are becoming more popular these days. The technology of COMTiles is excellent, but it is not yet easy to introduce because the library is not published in “npm,” and the documentation is incomplete. One of the reasons for PMTiles' popularity is due in part to its extensive documentation. This article will be of some help to those who are considering introducing COMTiles!

Com-tiles[1] also looks pretty good, a bit more optimized than pmtiles.

The whole cloud optimized vector tile/data space is next after COGs (cloud optimized geotiffs). Point-clouds are also getting the index-range-request treatment as COPC[2].

[1] https://github.com/mactrem/com-tiles