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[SPIKE][Maps] Tile Server Replacement/Enhancements
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Description

Context
Currently our maps stack is consisting of custom software build early in the days where the maps ecosystem was different.
This has as a result to have a lot of maintenance overhead of software and dependencies (a lot of them outdated) and complexity that is solved or decoupled in other projects.

Hypothesis
We can isolate components of kartotherian/tilerator and replace them with off the shelve open source software that is modern and actively maintained.

Questions we want to answer

  • What can replace kartotherian?
  • Will the new solution be performant & scale*? *need to define baseline
  • What are the tradeoffs? (Learning curve for new tile server VS small improvements to kartotherian)

Results

Event Timeline

sdkim renamed this task from [SPIKE] Tile Server Replacement/Enhancements to [SPIKE][Maps] Tile Server Replacement/Enhancements.Oct 15 2020, 3:05 PM
sdkim edited projects, added Spike; removed Epic.
Restricted Application changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Spike". · View Herald TranscriptOct 15 2020, 3:05 PM
LGoto triaged this task as Medium priority.Oct 28 2020, 3:32 PM

Here is a write up of the vector tile server spike

  • context
  • identified issues
  • current ecosystem
  • technologies used
  • results