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Fifty-eight megabytes

Fifty-eight megabytes

Part 3 · Building Cuando

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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Paying per tile

Paying per tile

Part 2 · Building Cuando

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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