Vibes are all that matter. As soon as you start measuring it, that measurement becomes a target and vendors start optimizing for it at expense of the general usefulness of the model. We’ve seen plenty of models with great benchmark scores flop when people start using it.
Cool! I definitely felt the pain of current options when I added parquet support to Planetiler to process overture data. I ended up using parquet-floor to trim the dependencies but it’s a bit of a hacky approach. If there’s a way to use the lower level utilities from my own threads without hardwood spawning it’s own then I’ll have to give it a shot.
Planetiler currently supports generating MLT by adding —-tile-format=mlt cli argument. It’s only on latest main right now but I should be able to get a release out in the next few days. In my testing I’ve seen ~10% reduction in overall OpenMapTiles archive size with default settings but there are some more optimizations the team is working on that should bring it down even further.
Pole of Inaccessibility is also a useful technique for placing the label for a polygon at a visually pleasing location on a map. @mourner came up with a more efficient algorithm for computing the point https://blog.mapbox.com/a-new-algorithm-for-finding-a-visual... (https://github.com/mapbox/polylabel) which JTS's MaximumInscribedCircle utility is based on, which I use for "innermost point" label placement in planetiler.
I haven’t used markdown in javadoc yet but this seems like at least 3/10? I often want to put paragraphs or bulleted lists in javadoc and find myself wanting to use markdown syntax for readability in the code but need to switch to less readable html tags for tooling to render it properly.
A friend of mine is on a 25 year running every day streak. He flew to Australia and landed 2 days after taking off and said that day “never existed for him” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’ve stopped at that Lee McDonald’s and remember thinking the price seemed kind of high. Little did I know it was the most expensive in the country. Even the eastbound one across I-90 is $1.40 cheaper!
I’m looking forward to be able to memory-map an entire large file without having to split it up into 2gb segments, and to be able to reliably unmap it when done. So many hacks to work around this lack of functionality today…
I came up with an approach for placing labels where each gets a min zoom to show up at such that there are no collisions and always appears beyond that. Personally I like the feel of it a lot better, but the downside is that at a given zoom labels are less dense than if they could show/hide to fill in empty spaces. Also, it makes it impossible to dynamically style the labels, or rotate/tilt.
The protomaps basemap is also built on planetiler: https://github.com/protomaps/basemaps - and Brandon is one of the main contributors a to planetiler!
Exactly, this use case is write-once then read-only after that. Random updates to the sqlite file after that would need more “normal” settings, but they wouldn’t also need as much throughput.