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		jddj on Feb 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Replacing Mapbox with open source solutions Thanks a lot. I developed and support a standalone desktop application which contains customer-specific tiled maps, and it can get unwieldy. A pivot at some point to these types of archives is an option, but I'd like to roll forward existing customers as well.

bdon on Feb 18, 2023 [–]

If you have access to SQLite in your desktop application then there isn't any big wins from using PMTiles over MBTiles; PMTiles does have some special design around tile-deduplication but this is possible in MBTiles too by using table views.

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