alt Hacker NewsOptimizing some of that geojson into realtime tiles is a really fun and engaging project.
Have you seen these projects?
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KronisLV • today at 7:47 AM
Protomaps is really cool also when you just want maps for a country and to serve them without too much of a hassle, their CLI has pretty much everything you need: https://docs.protomaps.com/pmtiles/cli
I set that up for an agricultural project a while back.
They are definitely on the horizon! I am a HUGE fan of both of those projects and they are definitely on the roadmap for the architecture...
Right now, ShadowBroker is really optimized for 'blinking blip' real-time radar tracking (streaming the raw GeoJSON payload from the FastAPI backend directly to MapLibre every 60s), so we get as close to as smooth 60fps entity animations across the map.
Moving to something like Martin would be incredible for handling EVEN MORE entities if we start archiving historical flight and AIS data into a proper PostGIS database, but the trade-off of having to invalidate the vector tile cache every few seconds for live-moving targets makes it a bit overkill right now....