Hi Jon,

Generating your own vector tiles gives you enormous control over what
features are included and therefore the size and performance of your
tileset. Choosing what features to reveal and style and at what zoom level
can be handled by the mapping library (e.g., Mapbox GL JS) but if you know
you aren't going to need, say, building footprints and heights, leaving
them out of the tiles altogether will have an effect on tile delivery.
Alternately, if you need non-standard data (I'm thinking of a project I did
using OpenStreetMap's seamark tags for maritime features), generating your
own may be the best/only solution.

I've worked quite a lot with OpenMapTiles. https://openmaptiles.org/

Eric


On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 11:38 AM Jon Jablonski <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Huh.  I didn’t know buying pre-rendered tiles was a thing.  Is there an
> advantage (other than convenience) over rendering your own?
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> Jon Jablonski
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> Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory
> UCSB Library
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> On Apr 5, 2021, at 7:29 AM, Diaz, Tony A. <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hello, any good sources for finding GIS files for the Copper Canyon of
> Mexico?
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> Especially looking for MBTiles files for the area,
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> Thanks
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> Tony Diaz
> California Institute of Technology
> Pasadena, CA
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