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https://protomaps.com/ is even simpler. Http range requests on a single static file.

I'm a little annoyed for the fact that the map shows South America and avoids showing the Argentina label because it overflows but doesn't give a fuck about Chile and its 2mm of width.

And shows Buenos Aires before it shows Argentina.

It says it uses PMTiles right on the front page, right?

Yep, it's a format they designed (ProtoMaps Tiles):

https://github.com/protomaps/PMTiles

It uses PMTiles… Range requests are only supported on S3 directly. If you want to use a custom domain, edge level caching etc. you‘ll need to use a CDN like CloudFront

Yeah Protonmaps is awesome, I’ve been very happy with them. Dirt cheap and simple. After getting hit with a couple hundred dollars (yes, not much, but it was a side project) with Google Maps I went looking for alternatives and found protonmaps, I haven’t looked back.

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