Fifty-eight megabytes
Eighteen months of drawing our map as pictures, and why Cuando is moving to vector: one 58.67 MB file instead of 15 GB per theme, a Flutter renderer that crashed, and three map engines behind one view in the new apps.
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Every light was green
Today, bus routes in Cuando started coming from Valhalla, fed with a GTFS timetable we generate ourselves. We have been publishing it, or trying to, every weekday since March, and until today nothing asked it for a bus. How to make GTFS when nobody publishes one, and how Valhalla loses every bus while every check stays green.
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The query that ate the database
For a year, route search in Cuando was one recursive SQL query. This autumn the app started calling it, and it started running out of memory. How route search in SQL works, why it blows up, and why, as of today, it runs in the Worker instead.
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Paying per tile
Every map decision in Cuando so far followed from how the map was billed. Six months of Mapbox, one week of vector tiles, a heatmap that decides how far you may zoom in, and, as of this week, a map we draw ourselves.
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