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Revisiting Overture's Global Geospatial Datasets
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This web app is serverless and uses JavaScript to fetch map data from 371 GB worth of PM Tiles on AWS Cloudfront. It is possible to work with Overture's Parquet files on S3 rather than storing them locally but I found querying their data on an SATA-backed SSD was ~5x faster than off of S3 on my 500 Mbps broadband connection. Sam Chui flew from Qatar to Bangkok earlier this year and one of the pilots showed him the app they use to get runway and taxi information.
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