This State of the Map 2024 (SotM) talk introduces MapLibre Tiles (MLT), a new vector tiles format designed for OpenStreetMap (OSM) data that achieves up to 80% smaller tile sizes and faster decoding compared to the Mapbox Vector Tiles (MVT) standard.

PicTiler is a secure, browser-based tool that transforms a main image into a photomosaic using a collection of other images as tiles.

Concepts:

• PMTiles is a general format for tiled data addressed by Z/X/Y coordinates. This can be cartographic basemap vector tiles, remote sensing observations, JPEG images, or more.

• PMTiles readers use HTTP Range Requests to fetch only the relevant tile or metadata inside a PMTiles archive on-demand.

creating complex procedural worlds from simple sets of colored tiles and constraints on the placements of those tiles