Blog posts tagged rasterzen
More recent old maps (and the shapes in the details)
Wandering around the airport at high zoom levels, seeing the “shape” of airport in its details, is so much fun we’ve added a handy đź“· button to the map that will allow you to create an image of whatever you happen to be looking at.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on November 06, 2019 and tagged history, maps, rasterzen, sfo and whosonfirst.
Sweet spots between the extremes
This is a technical blog post about map tiles, caching, third-party services, so-called “serverless” computing and sustainability. It’s also about improvements to open-source software for managing all of that stuff.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on November 07, 2018 and tagged aws, golang, whosonfirst, maps, nextzen and rasterzen.
Maps (and map tiles) at SFO Museum
Maybe these maps are simply a fail-safe and only used when nothing else works. Their value then comes from giving us the confidence to try a more sophisticated approach while still having a way to get home safely, so to speak.
This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on July 31, 2018 and tagged maps, nextzen, sfo, aws, golang and rasterzen.